RE: how to programatically monitor Kafka availability

any broker, or none had a value of 4, assume the cluster is NOT available Thanks. Ken Hohl Cars.com -Original Message- From: hsy...@gmail.com [mailto:hsy...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:02 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: how to programatically monitor Kafka

Re: how to programatically monitor Kafka availability

Hey Hohl, I use *partitionsFor * method to monitor the partition info for particular topics On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Hohl, Ken wrote: > We

how to programatically monitor Kafka availability

We want to be able to monitor the ability to send messages to Kafka topics. We want to be aware of the inability to do so before the time we attempt to send a message. What we're looking for is something like a heartbeat. The reason we need this is that in our deployment environment, Kafka