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Otis Gospodnetic commented on KAFKA-2569: ----------------------------------------- bq. How do people typically monitor things with JMX metrics (like Kafka and Zookeeper)? They use tools like SPM for Kafka / ZK / etc., or home-grown stuff. See http://sematext.com/spm/integrations/kafka-monitoring.html for example. > Kafka should write its metrics to a Kafka topic > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2569 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2569 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: James Cheng > > Kafka is often used to hold and transport monitoring data. > In order to monitor Kafka itself, Kafka currently exposes many metrics via > JMX, which require using a tool to pull the JMX metrics, and then write them > to the monitoring system. > It would be convenient if Kafka could simply send its metrics to a Kafka > topic. This would make most sense if the Kafka topic was in a different Kafka > cluster, but could still be useful even if it was sent to a topic in the same > Kafka cluster. > Of course, if sent to the same cluster, it would not be accessible if the > cluster itself was down. > This would allow monitoring of Kafka itself without requiring people to set > up their own JMX-to-monitoring-system pipelines. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)