Kafka Graphite Metrics Reporter

This plugin allows to export data from Kafka instance to Graphite directly. Kafka 0.10.2.+ support.

Plugin supports multiple interfaces:

• Broker (kafka.metrics.KafkaMetricsReporter)
• Clients (org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.MetricsReporter)

Install

Clients plugin could be integrated by defining next dependencies.

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.pakulov.kafka</groupId>
  <artifactId>kafka-graphite-clients</artifactId>
  <version>0.10.2</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'com.pakulov.kafka:kafka-graphite-clients:0.10.2'

Build

Broker plugin could be compiled with different Scala versions, use scalaVersion Gradle's property to define version

./gradlew -PscalaVersion=2.10.5 build 

There is also a way to build a deb package

./gradlew buildDeb

Usage

At first you have to configure kafka reporters server.properties file

For KafkaMetricsReporter use:

• kafka.metrics.reporters=kafka.metrics.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter
• kafka.graphite.metrics.jvm.enabled: Controls JVM metrics output (default: true)

For MetricsReporter use:

• metric.reporters=org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.GraphiteReporter

Plugin has a set of possible parameters:

• kafka.metrics.polling.interval.secs=60: Polling interval that will be used for all Kafka metrics
• kafka.graphite.metrics.reporter.enabled: Enables actual plugin (default: false)
• kafka.graphite.metrics.host: The graphite host to connect to (default: localhost)
• kafka.graphite.metrics.port: The port to connect to (default: 2003)
• kafka.graphite.metrics.prefix: The metric prefix that's sent with metric names (default: kafka)
• kafka.graphite.metrics.include: A regular expression allowing explicitly include certain metrics (default: null)
• kafka.graphite.metrics.exclude: A regular expression allowing you to exclude certain metrics (default: null)