Grafana dashboard: Kafka Overview
Description: Kafka resource usage and throughput

See the [blog post]( https://www.robustperception.io/monitoring-kafka-with-prometheus/) for how to setup the JMX Exporter to use this dashboard.

The job label must be `kafka`.

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