Monitoring with the help of Ganglia

Ganglia is another important monitoring framework used to monitor Kafka. This recipe shows how to configure Kafka to report statistics in Ganglia.

Getting ready

Install Kafka on your machine.

How to do it...

1. Download the code for Kafka Ganglia metrics reporter using the following link: https://github.com/criteo/kafka-ganglia/archive/master.zip.
2. Unzip the file using the following command:

$ unzip master.zip

3. Execute the Maven clean package command on the unzipped directory:

$ mvn clean package

4. The previous command should have generated kafka-ganglia-1.0.0.jar in the ./target directory.
5. In the .m2/repository/com/yammer/metrics Maven directory, this file should be generated: /metrics-ganglia-2.2.0.jar
6. Copy both files to the /libs directory of the Kafka installation.
7. Add these lines to the server.properties file:

kafka.metrics.reporters=com.criteo.kafka.kafkaGangliaMetricsReporter 
kafka.ganglia.metrics.reporter.enabled=true 
kafka.ganglia.metrics.host=localhost 
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