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Apache Kafka metrics

The following table lists the metrics that are gathered as output from Kafka checks. Entries indicated as Featured metrics are high-visibility metrics that are displayed in the Operator Workspace Metric tab after an alert is generated. These metrics provide the operator with additional information to help them further explore the specified issue.

Metric typeResource (name of specific database, where relevant)UnitsMetric type description
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.TotalTimeMs.FetchConsumer.Mean (featured metric)  Total time (in ms) to serve the Consumer request.
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.TotalTimeMs.FetchFollower.Mean (featured metric)  Total time (in ms) to serve the Follower request.
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.TotalTimeMs.Produce.Mean (featured metric)  Total time (in ms) to serve the Producer request.
Kafka.Broker.BrokerTopicMetrics.BytesOutPerSec.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Aggregate outgoing byte rate.
Kafka.Broker.BrokerTopicMetrics.BytesInPerSec.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Aggregate incoming byte rate.
Kafka.Broker.ReplicaManager.UnderReplicatedPartitions.Value  Number of unreplicated partitions.
Kafka.Broker.ReplicaManager.IsrExpandsPerSec.OneMinuteRate  Rate at which the pool of in-sync replicas (ISRs) shrinks.
Kafka.Broker.ReplicaManager.IsrShrinksPerSec.OneMinuteRate  Rate at which the pool of in-sync replicas (ISRs) shrinks.
Kafka.Broker.KafkaController.ActiveControllerCount.Value (featured metric)  Number of active controllers in cluster.
Kafka.Broker.KafkaController.OfflinePartitionsCount.Value  Number of offline partitions.
Kafka.Broker.ControllerStats.LeaderElectionRateAndTimeMs.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Leader election rate and latency.
Kafka.Broker.ControllerStats.UncleanLeaderElectionsPerSec.OneMinuteRate  Number of unclean elections per second.
Kafka.Broker.DelayedOperationPurgatory.PurgatorySize.Fetch.Value  Number of requests waiting in fetch purgatory.
Kafka.Broker.DelayedOperationPurgatory.PurgatorySize.Produce.Value  Number of requests waiting in producer purgatory.
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.RequestsPerSec.Produce.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Number of producer requests per second.
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.RequestsPerSec.FetchConsumer.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Number of consumer requests per second.
Kafka.Broker.RequestMetrics.RequestsPerSec.FetchFollower.OneMinuteRate (featured metric)  Number of follower requests per second.
Metric typeResource (name of specific database, where relevant)UnitsMetric type description
Kafka.Zookeeper.outstanding_requests (featured metric)  Number of requests queued.
Kafka.Zookeeper.avg_latency (featured metric)  Average amount of time it takes to respond to a client request (in ms).
Kafka.Zookeeper.num_alive_connections (featured metric)  Number of clients connected to ZooKeeper.
Kafka.Zookeeper.open_file_descriptor_count  Number of file descriptors in use.
Kafka.Zookeeper.pending_syncs  Number of pending syncs from followers.
Kafka.Zookeeper.followers  Number of active followers.

Parent Topic:Agent Client Collector Monitoring default checks and policies