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Vladimir Tretyakov commented on KAFKA-1100: ------------------------------------------- Right [~otis], names will be: {code} kafka.consumer:type=FetchRequestAndResponseMetrics,name=FetchRequestRateAndTimeMs,clientId=af_servers,allBrokers=true kafka.consumer:type=FetchRequestAndResponseMetrics,name=FetchRequestRateAndTimeMs,clientId=af_servers,brokerHost=wawanawna,brokerPort=9092 {code} > metrics shouldn't have generation/timestamp specific names > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1100 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1100 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Jason Rosenberg > > I've noticed that there are several metrics that seem useful for monitoring > overtime, but which contain generational timestamps in the metric name. > We are using yammer metrics libraries to send metrics data in a background > thread every 10 seconds (to kafka actually), and then they eventually end up > in a metrics database (graphite, opentsdb). The metrics then get graphed via > UI, and we can see metrics going way back, etc. > Unfortunately, many of the metrics coming from kafka seem to have metric > names that change any time the server or consumer is restarted, which makes > it hard to easily create graphs over long periods of time (spanning app > restarts). > For example: > names like: > kafka.consumer.FetchRequestAndResponseMetrics....square-1371718712833-e9bb4d10-0-508818741-AllBrokersFetchRequestRateAndTimeMs > or: > kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector...topicName.....square-1373476779391-78aa2e83-0-FetchQueueSize > In our staging environment, we have our servers on regular auto-deploy cycles > (they restart every few hours). So just not longitudinally usable to have > metric names constantly changing like this. > Is there something that can easily be done? Is it really necessary to have > so much cryptic info in the metric name? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)