Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-08 Thread Jun Rao
0.8 JMX is different from 0.7. In 0.8, all jmx beans are exposed through metrics. One can attach a metric reporter for monitoring. Thanks, Jun On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Otis Gospodnetic otis.gospodne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're considering adding Kafka monitoring to SPM (see

Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-08 Thread Jun Rao
See http://metrics.codahale.com/getting-started/#reporting-via-http Thanks, Jun On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Dennis Haller dhal...@talenttech.comwrote: What exactly is a metric reporter - something in log4j? Thanks Dennis On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Jun Rao jun...@gmail.com

Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-08 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
  From: Jun Rao jun...@gmail.com To: users@kafka.apache.org users@kafka.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX 0.8 JMX is different from 0.7. In 0.8, all jmx beans are exposed through metrics. One can attach

Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-08 Thread Dragos Manolescu
From the JmxReporter section of the metrics manual: Warning We don¹t recommend that you try to gather metrics from your production environment. JMX¹s RPC API is fragile and bonkers. For development purposes and browsing, though, it can be very useful. -Dragos On 5/8/13 2:10 PM, Otis

Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-08 Thread Jun Rao
11:20 AM Subject: Re: Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX 0.8 JMX is different from 0.7. In 0.8, all jmx beans are exposed through metrics. One can attach a metric reporter for monitoring. Thanks, Jun On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Otis Gospodnetic otis.gospodne...@gmail.com

Kafka Monitoring, 0.7 vs. 0.8 JMX

2013-05-07 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, We're considering adding Kafka monitoring to SPM (see http://sematext.com/spm/index.html ). We use Kafka ourselves and would like to see our Kafka metrics in SPM along with Hadoop, HBase, Solr, and other metrics we monitor. My questions: * What do people currently use for monitoring Kafka?