Ewen Cheslack-Postava created KAFKA-5613:
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Summary: Deprecate JmxTool?
Key: KAFKA-5613
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5613
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.11.0.0
Reporter: Ewen Cheslack-Postava
According to git-blame, JmxTool has been around since October 2011. We use it
in system tests, but we are thinking it might be best to replace it:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5612
When making modifications for system tests, we've had to take into account
compatibility because this tool is technically included in our distribution
and, perhaps unintentionally, a public utility.
We know that "real" tools for JMX, like jmxtrans, are more commonly used, but
we don't know who might be using JmxTool simply because it ships with Kafka.
That said, it also isn't documented in the Kafka documentation, so you probably
have to dig around to find it.
Hopefully we can deprecate this and eventually move it either to a jar that is
only used for system tests, or even better just remove it entirely. To do any
of this, we'd probably need to do at least a cursory survey of the community to
get a feel for usage level.
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