Is that 0.8 specific? Sorry, I can't find the documentation you mention (there are no references to the variable maxLag).
I still find more problems in having a dual connection (jmx and zookeeper) instead of only one (zookeeper). 2013/8/22 Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> > Are you trying to monitor the lag in the consumer? If so, you can use the > maxLag/minFetch JMX described in > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#monitoring > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Pablo Barrera González < > pablo.barr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I am trying to monitor our kafka cluster. For that I use a zookeeper > client > > that reads the information of all the consumer and a jmx agent that > > connects to the brokers. I try to look for discrepancies between the data > > being produced and the data being consumed. > > > > I dislike the idea of using two different connect types (jmx and > zookeeper) > > for this so I wonder why broker does not publish the offset into > zookeeper? > > I don't want the last offset, just and update every X seconds or minutes. > > Is there any reason for not doing that? > > > > Other option is to use only jmx connections but then discovering the > > consumers is impossible. > > > > Thanks > > > > Pablo > > >