I think having dedicated registries would have been a better choice - it sort of just ended up like this. We made note of this in KAFKA-1567 as well if you read through those comments but concluded that it will be a larger refactoring at this point - which may not be worth it since we intend to move over to the new metrics package available in the kafka-clients package.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:40:50PM -0800, Sumit Rangwala wrote: > IIUC, Kafka uses the default registry in yammer metrics to create all kafka > related metrics. We observed a scenario where we found that our default > registry was getting populated by the metrics created by kafka which in > turn was causing other issues down the line. Just wanted to ask if there > was a specific reason for using the default registry or having a single > yammer registry of it own in kafka would be a better choice. > > > Sumit
