Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4935#discussion_r148442489 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.9/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/internal/KafkaConsumerThread.java --- @@ -245,6 +238,23 @@ public void run() { if (records == null) { try { records = consumer.poll(pollTimeout); + // register Kafka's very own metrics in Flink's metric reporters + if (useMetrics && !records.isEmpty()) { + // register Kafka metrics to Flink + Map<MetricName, ? extends Metric> metrics = consumer.metrics(); + if (metrics == null) { + // MapR's Kafka implementation returns null here. + log.info("Consumer implementation does not support metrics"); --- End diff -- The log will be overloaded with these, if the MapR implementation is used and metrics is turned on.
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