Monitoring producer statistics

As well as server metrics, there are also producer metrics.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we just need a Kafka broker up and running and JConsole installed.

How to do it...

1. Start the console producer for test_topic with the JMX parameters enabled with the following command:

$ JMX_PORT=10102 bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test_topic

2. Run JConsole using the following command:

$ jconsole 127.0.0.1:10102

3. In the following screenshot, see the MBeans tab with the Kafka producer metrics:

Figure 9.3: MBeans tab showing the Kafka producer metrics

How it works...

Switch to the MBeans tab in JConsole; there are several producer metrics. Some of them are as follows:

• kafka.producer:type=ProducerRequestMetrics,name=ProducerRequestRateAndTimeMs,clientId=console-producer: This gives values for the rate of producer requests taking place as the latencies involved. It gives latencies as a percentile: 50, 75, 95, 98, 99, and 99.9. It also gives the time...