This document explains some important metrics http://docs.confluent.io/1.0/kafka/monitoring.html
Also, you can check the kafka demo at https://apps.sematext.com/demo. As a side thing, as I have done, you can report every stat to Ganglia and then see, according to your domain, what are the most important ones to use and monitor. Ganglia does it really well in terms of aggregating form various kafka nodes Regards, Prabhjot On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Debraj Manna <subharaj.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What are the important metrics to monitor in Kafka (as explained here > <https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#monitoring>) and raise alarms > when the value reaches certain value? I am looking for some guidelines > similar to this excellent monitoring doc > < > https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_monitoring_individual_nodes.html#_jvm_section > > > about ElasticSearch > > I am using kafka in a logstash deployment. > > Logstash Forwarder --- Logstash -----Kafka ---- Logstash --- ES Cluster > > Its a single broker and single zookeeper deployment running in a single > machine. > > > Thanks, > Debraj > -- --------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't"
