In 0.7 there is no other way to access stats remotely. Technically the JMX is accessible so you can certainly start the broker yourself new KafkaServer(...) and just add a wrapper that calls the methods you are interested in, but if you are doing this from java it may be a bit awkward to reach into the scala code in this way.
In 0.8 we are using the yammer metrics package, so that may be easier for you. -Jay On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to expose some of the kafka stats that appear in the current > kafka jmx mbeans. > > In our system we are using the yammer metrics library (instead of polling > jmx), so I'd like to wrap the stats and expose them as yammer metrics > elements, etc. > > Looking at the code, it doesn't seem easy to access the stats > programmatically, other than by just creating an internal jmx client within > the app and pulling out the values that way. Is there an easier way? > > Jason >
