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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/3028/reference/apm/agents/dotnet/setup-kafka
products:
  - APM .NET Agent
  - APM Agent
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
  - Application Performance Monitoring Agent for .NET: Generally available
---

# 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`.