Observed arrival · 2026-11-14
Black Fox Graph: a Kafka estate in RDF
An open-source reference implementation that turns Apache Kafka infrastructure observations into an RDF knowledge graph queryable with SPARQL and a small set of fixed questions.
- For
- Kafka platform and SRE teams; RDF practitioners
- Worth noticing
- The demo's sample estate contains 17 resources and 21 relationships; the project explicitly says it is not production-hardened.
Field notes
The included Kafka Admin collector reads clusters, brokers, and topics, then posts observations as JSON; each observation can record attributes, relationships, confidence, time, and evidence source. The graph stores identity and relationships in RDF, while metrics are kept separately in SQLite or Cassandra. The collector has not been tested against a live cluster and does not read consumer groups or lag; the page also says there are no collector credentials for a real deployment.
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