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Kostya Golikov commented on KAFKA-1197: --------------------------------------- Is it really an issue to sum up offsets for topic's partitions? This will give you bytes (pre-0.8.x) / messages (post-0.8.x) count. > Count of bytes or messages of a topic stored in kafka > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1197 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1197 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.7.2, 0.8.0 > Reporter: Hanish Bansal > Priority: Minor > > There should be direct way of measuring count of messages or bytes for a > topic stored in Kafka. > There are already some very useful metrics like byteRate and messageRate > using what we can see count of bytes/messages coming into Kafka broker. > I was looking for some jmx metrics that can give count of messages/bytes > stored in kafka. > If we look into data stores like hbase we can see how many messages are > stored in hbase or if we look into search engine like elasticsearch then also > we can see how many messages are stored/indexed in elasticsearch. In similar > way i was expecting that there should be some way to see count of messages > or bytes for a topic stored in kafka without using any external tool. > It will be really helpful if there is some support for this using some jmx > metric or by script. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)