Re: Metrics to monitor in Kafka

[Otis Gospodnetić <ot...@gmail.com>]

Consumer offset/lag is what people are always after. :)

See also: http://search-hadoop.com/?q=kafka+otis+important+metrics

Otis
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Debraj Manna <su...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What are the important metrics to monitor in Kafka (as explained here
> <https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#monitoring>) and raise alarms
> when the value reaches certain value? I am looking for some guidelines
> similar to this excellent monitoring doc
> <
> https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_monitoring_individual_nodes.html#_jvm_section
> >
> about ElasticSearch
>
> I am using kafka in a logstash deployment.
>
> Logstash Forwarder --- Logstash -----Kafka ---- Logstash --- ES Cluster
>
> Its a single broker and single zookeeper deployment running in a single
> machine.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Debraj
>