Stanislav Kozlovski created KAFKA-7992: ------------------------------------------
Summary: 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 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)