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Otis Gospodnetic commented on KAFKA-2569:
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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.



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