Github user zentol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4187
I don't think it matters to much whether a metric is completely measured by
Flink or just forwarded from kafka classes. Having "kafka" in the name also
introduces an inherent redundancy, since the scope for, say the
KafkaConsumerThread, already contains "KafkaConsumer".
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