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Kafka module

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This is the Kafka module.

The default metricsets are consumergroup and partition.

If authorization is configured in the Kafka cluster, the following ACLs are required for the Metricbeat user:

  • READ Topic, for the topics to be monitored
  • DESCRIBE Group, for the groups to be monitored

For example, if the stats user is being used for Metricbeat, to monitor all topics and all consumer groups, ACLS can be granted with the following commands:

kafka-acls --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 --add --allow-principal User:stats --operation Read --topic '*'
kafka-acls --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 --add --allow-principal User:stats --operation Describe --group '*'

Compatibility

This module is tested with Kafka 0.10.2.1, 1.1.0, 2.1.1, and 2.2.2.

The Broker, Producer, Consumer metricsets require Jolokia to fetch JMX metrics. Refer to the link for Jolokia’s compatibility notes.

Usage

The Broker, Producer, Consumer metricsets require Jolokia to fetch JMX metrics. Refer to those Metricsets' documentation about how to use Jolokia.

Dashboard

The Kafka module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

metricbeat kafka dashboard

Example configuration

The Kafka module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Modules. Here is an example configuration:

metricbeat.modules:
# Kafka metrics collected using the Kafka protocol
- module: kafka
  #metricsets:
  #  - partition
  #  - consumergroup
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9092"]

  #client_id: metricbeat
  #retries: 3
  #backoff: 250ms

  # List of Topics to query metadata for. If empty, all topics will be queried.
  #topics: []

  # Optional SSL. By default is off.
  # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
  #ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

  # Certificate for SSL client authentication
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

  # Client Certificate Key
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

  # Client Certificate Passphrase (in case your Client Certificate Key is encrypted)
  #ssl.key_passphrase: "yourKeyPassphrase"

  # SASL authentication
  #username: ""
  #password: ""

  # SASL authentication mechanism used. Can be one of PLAIN, SCRAM-SHA-256 or SCRAM-SHA-512.
  # Defaults to PLAIN when `username` and `password` are configured.
  #sasl.mechanism: ''

# Metrics collected from a Kafka broker using Jolokia
#- module: kafka
#  metricsets:
#    - broker
#  period: 10s
#  hosts: ["localhost:8779"]

# Metrics collected from a Java Kafka consumer using Jolokia
#- module: kafka
#  metricsets:
#    - consumer
#  period: 10s
#  hosts: ["localhost:8774"]

# Metrics collected from a Java Kafka producer using Jolokia
#- module: kafka
#  metricsets:
#    - producer
#  period: 10s
#  hosts: ["localhost:8775"]

Metricsets

The following metricsets are available: