When you say "topic size", do you mean # of topics? If so, you can send TopicMetadataRequest to any broker. See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Examplefor details. In particular, if the topic list in the request is empty, you get all topics.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Krzysztof Ociepa <ociepa.krzysz...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi Team, > > I would like to ask you about the easiest way to fetch topics metadata > from my app. My goal is monitoring of the topic size in my java app > (when I have also producers). Is there any API in Kafka libs for that? I > would like to avoid direct connection to the Zookeeper. > > Thanks, > Chris >