Kafka producer metricset

This functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

This metricset periodically fetches JMX metrics from Kafka Producers implemented in java and expose JMX metrics through jolokia agent.

Compatibility

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The module has been tested with Kafka 2.1.1 and 2.2.2. Other versions are expected to work.

Usage

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The Producer metricset requires Jolokiato fetch JMX metrics. Refer to the link for more information about Jolokia.

Note that the Jolokia agent is required to be deployed along with the JVM application. This can be achieved by using the KAFKA_OPTS environment variable when starting the Kafka producer application:

export KAFKA_OPTS=-javaagent:/opt/jolokia-jvm-1.5.0-agent.jar=port=8775,host=localhost
./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic test --broker-list localhost:9091

Then it will be possible to collect the JMX metrics from localhost:8775.

Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2019-10-31T10:19:14.758Z",
    "@metadata": {
        "beat": "metricbeat",
        "type": "_doc",
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "producer",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "1.2.0"
    },
    "host": {
        "os": {
            "name": "Mac OS X",
            "kernel": "18.7.0",
            "build": "18G95",
            "platform": "darwin",
            "version": "10.14.6",
            "family": "darwin"
        },
        "id": "883134FF-0EC4-5E1B-9F9E-FD06FB681D84",
        "hostname": "abc.local",
        "name": "abc.local",
        "architecture": "x86_64"
    },
    "agent": {
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "ephemeral_id": "b95327e7-2737-4262-a1a6-ab8547fc8c8d",
        "hostname": "abc.local",
        "id": "79dd1677-1bea-4efd-9131-e8ca464eddf0",
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "service": {
        "address": "localhost:8775",
        "type": "kafka"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "kafka.producer",
        "module": "kafka",
        "duration": 4485726
    },
    "kafka": {
        "producer": {
            "response_rate": 0,
            "request_rate": 0,
            "record_send_rate": 0,
            "batch_size_avg": 0,
            "record_size_avg": 0,
            "record_retry_rate": 0,
            "records_per_request": 0,
            "io_wait": 1.2487715219630156e+07,
            "mbean": "kafka.producer:client-id=console-producer,type=producer-metrics",
            "available_buffer_bytes": 0,
            "record_error_rate": 737.5234685412391
        }
    }
}

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