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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-7992: --------------------------------------- cmccabe commented on pull request #6318: KAFKA-7992: Introduce start-time-ms metric URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6318 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org > Add a server start time metric > ------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-7992 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7992 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Stanislav Kozlovski > Assignee: Stanislav Kozlovski > Priority: Minor > Labels: needs-kip > > KIP: KIP-436 > As with all software systems, observability into their health is critical. > With many deployment platforms (be them custom-built or open-source), tasks > like restarting a misbehaving server in a cluster are completely automated. > With Kafka, monitoring systems have no definitive source of truth to gauge > when a server/client has been started. They are left to either use arbitrary > Kafka-specific metrics as a heuristic or the JVM RuntimeMXBean's StartTime, > which is not exactly indicative of when the application itself started > It would be useful to have a metric exposing when the kafka server has > started. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)