Thanks Guozhang/Neha for replies. Here's my use case: We use proprietary application logging in our apps. We are planning to use Kafka brokers in production , but apart from the logs which are already logged using log4j in kafka we want to log the broker stats using our centralized application logging framework.
Simply put I want to write an application which could start when the kafka brokers starts, read the broker state and metrics and push it to the centralized logging servers. In ActiveMQ we have a plugin for our proprietary logging. We intercept broker operation and install the plugin into the interceptor chain of the broker. Regards, Ravi On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ravi, > > Our goal is to provide the best implementation of a set of useful > abstractions and features in Kafka. The motivation behind this philosophy > is performance and simplicity at the cost of flexibility. In most cases, we > can argue that the loss in flexibility is minimal since you can always get > that functionality by modeling your application differently, especially if > the system supports high performance. ActiveMQ has to support the JMS > protocol and hence provide all sorts of hooks and plugins on the brokers at > the cost of performance. > > Could you elaborate more on your use case? There is probably another way to > model your application using Kafka. > > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:24 AM, ravi singh <rrs120...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How do I intercept Kakfa broker operation so that features such as > > security,logging,etc can be implemented as a pluggable filter. For > example > > we have "BrokerFilter" class in ActiveMQ , Is there anything similar in > > Kafka? > > > > -- > > *Regards,* > > *Ravi* > > > -- *Regards,* *Ravi*
