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title: Confluent Kafka
description: Instrumentation can be performed for Confluent Kafka by referencing Confluent.Kafka and Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics packages. Confluent.Kafka...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2422/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-kafka
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# Confluent Kafka
## Quick start

Instrumentation can be performed for Confluent Kafka by referencing [`Confluent.Kafka`](https://www.nuget.org/packages/confluent.kafka) and [`Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics`](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics) packages.
`Confluent.Kafka` is not instrumented automatically but `Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics` provides instrumentations on top of `Confluent.Kafka`.
Please, follow the instructions provided in [`Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics`](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Confluent.Kafka.Extensions.Diagnostics), especially for the `Producer`.