Kafka moduleedit
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 '*'
Compatibilityedit
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.
Usageedit
The Broker, Producer, Consumer metricsets require Jolokia to fetch JMX metrics. Refer to those Metricsets' documentation about how to use Jolokia.
Dashboardedit
The Kafka module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

Example configurationedit
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"]
Metricsetsedit
The following metricsets are available: