I have used nagios in this manner with kafaka before and worked fine. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote:
> i would like to be able to ping kafka servers from nagios to confirm they > are alive. since kafka servers dont run a http server (web ui) i am not > sure how to do this. > > is it safe to establish a "test" tcp connection (so connect and immediately > disconnect using telnet or netstat or something like that) to the kafka > server on port 9092 to confirm its alive? > > thanks >