You can use the emailer config in Burrow to send alerts directly (it will monitor specific groups and send emails out when there is a problem). If you need something more complex than that, I think the best practice is always to send the output into an general alert/notification system.
-Todd On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, shahab <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Noah. I installed Burrow and played with it a little bit. It seems > as you pointed out I need to implement the alerting system myself. Do you > know any other Kafka tools that can give alerts? > > best, > /Shahab > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:44 PM, noah <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > We use Burrow <https://github.com/linkedin/Burrow>. There are rest > > endpoints you can use to get offsets and manually calculate lag, but if > you > > are focused on alerting, I'd use it's consumer statuses as they are a bit > > smarter than a simple lag calculation. > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:08 AM shahab <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I wonder how we can monitor lag (difference between consumer offset and > > log > > > ) when "kafka" is set as offset.storage? because the > "kafka-run-class.sh > > > kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker ... " does work only when zookeeper > is > > > used as storage manager. > > > > > > best, > > > /Shahab > > > > > >
