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James Cheng commented on KAFKA-2569:
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Yes, although I didn't realize that was a rare thing. I'm pretty new to the
operations-side of Kafka.
How do people typically monitor things with JMX metrics (like Kafka and
Zookeeper)?
> Kafka should write its metrics to a Kafka topic
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> Key: KAFKA-2569
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2569
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: James Cheng
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> Kafka is often used to hold and transport monitoring data.
> In order to monitor Kafka itself, Kafka currently exposes many metrics via
> JMX, which require using a tool to pull the JMX metrics, and then write them
> to the monitoring system.
> It would be convenient if Kafka could simply send its metrics to a Kafka
> topic. This would make most sense if the Kafka topic was in a different Kafka
> cluster, but could still be useful even if it was sent to a topic in the same
> Kafka cluster.
> Of course, if sent to the same cluster, it would not be accessible if the
> cluster itself was down.
> This would allow monitoring of Kafka itself without requiring people to set
> up their own JMX-to-monitoring-system pipelines.
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