FinOps for Apache Kafka · EU · read-only

What does your Kafka actually cost?

brod attributes the real monthly bill to topics and teams, finds the waste, and turns every finding into a euro-quantified fix you merge as a pull request — without ever giving any tool write access to your cluster.

$curl -fsSL brod.sh | sh copy
★ open-source CLI
20–40%
of the bill, recoverable

Most clusters bleed money on dead topics, retention overkill, missing compression and over-partitioning. brod ranks every leak in euros — estimate vs measured, always labeled.

01 / non-negotiable

Read-only by design

Write-capable credentials are rejected at onboarding. brod cannot modify a cluster — by architecture. Fixes ship as diffs you review.

02 / non-negotiable

Metadata only

Topic configs, sizes, offsets, consumer-group state. Never message payloads. There is no code path that fetches your data.

03 / non-negotiable

Euros, not metrics

Every finding carries a € figure, the exact config change, and an honest basis label. Savings are booked only once a fix is measured.

Stop guessing. Start with one command.

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