Consumer offset/lag is what people are always after. :) See also: http://search-hadoop.com/?q=kafka+otis+important+metrics
Otis -- Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:28 AM, 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 >