Monitoring with the Confluent Control Center

This recipe shows you how to use the metrics reporter of the Confluent Control Center.

Getting ready

The execution of the previous recipe is needed.

Before starting the Control Center, configure the metrics reporter:

1. Back up the server.properties file located at:

<confluent_path>/etc/kafka/server.properties

2. In the server.properties file, uncomment the following lines:

metric.reporters=io.confluent.metrics.reporter.ConfluentMetricsReporter 
confluent.metrics.reporter.bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092 
confluent.metrics.reporter.topic.replicas=1 

3. Back up the Kafka Connect configuration located in:

<confluent_path>/etc/schema-registry/connect-avro-distributed.properties

4. Add the following lines at the end of the connect-avro-distributed.properties file:

consumer.interceptor.classes=io.confluent.monitoring.clients.interceptor.MonitoringConsumerInterceptor 
producer.interceptor.classes=io.confluent.monitoring.clients.interceptor.MonitoringProducerInterceptor...