Hi Dillian, You can use a Linux script, general monitoring/alerting tool, or JMX (see here, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6487802/check-available-heapsize-programatically ).
Let me know if you have a more specific question. Alex On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Dillian Murphey <crackshotm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was running out of heap space for my kafka broker. Is there a way I can > check how much memory kafka is using so I can alert myself if it is > reaching the max heap size? Default is 1GB. > > Thanks > -- *Alex Loddengaard | **Solutions Architect | Confluent* *Download Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform: www.confluent.io/download <http://www.confluent.io/download>*