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|  | There are a plethora of tools that integrate with Kafka outside the main distribution. The <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Ecosystem"> ecosystem page</a> lists many of these, including stream processing systems, Hadoop integration, monitoring, and deployment tools. |