Hi Jens, Have you looked at Burrow?
https://github.com/linkedin/Burrow/blob/master/README.md Thanks, Subhash Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 12, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Jens Rantil <jens.ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am one of the maintainers of prometheus-kafka-consumer-group-exporter[1], > which exports consumer group offsets and lag to Prometheus. The way we > currently scrape this information is by periodically executing > `kafka-consumer-groups.sh --describe` for each group and parse the output. > > Recently the output from `kafka-consumer-groups.sh --describe` was > changed[2]. While I am working on a patch[3] to accomodate for the new > output format I was wondering if there is an easier, possibly more > stable[4] and more future proof, way for our project to extract the > information we are interested in. Does anyone know of a Go library that > could extract the metrics we need? Or would it make sense to refactor > `kafka-consumer-groups.sh` to support a more structured output? I'd love to > hear your input. > > Also, if Kafka exported the same metrics through JMX our project would not > exist, but maybe that's another story... > > Cheers, > Jens > > [1] https://github.com/kawamuray/prometheus-kafka-consumer-group-exporter > [2] > https://github.com/kawamuray/prometheus-kafka-consumer-group-exporter/issues/24 > [3] > https://github.com/kawamuray/prometheus-kafka-consumer-group-exporter/pull/29 > [4] We've also encountered `kafka-consumer-groups.sh` hanging a few times > in production. There's a race condition somewhere in the script, most > likely when a topic is rebalancing. Currently we kill the process if it > doesn't finish within a timeout. See > https://github.com/kawamuray/prometheus-kafka-consumer-group-exporter/blob/e4cdc3b1245f636d89d7e227066f02578d732165/kafka/collector.go#L44 > . > > -- > Want to communicate with me securely? You can find my PGP key here > <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBA632DB691DA03B8>.
