1. Metrics: Aggregating statistics from distributed applications to produce centralized feeds of

operational data.

1. Log Aggregation Solution: Kafka can be used across an organization to collect logs from

multiple services and make them available in a standard format to multiple consumers.

1. Stream Processing: Popular frameworks such as Storm and Spark Streaming read data from a

topic, processes it, and write processed data to a new topic where it becomes available for

users and applications.