Kafka Riemann Reporter

Kafka includes support for automatically reporting various metrics (messages, bytes per topic etc.) in it's kafka.metrics.KafkaCSVMetricsReporter. This library provides an alternative which creates Riemann events.

Installing

Build the JAR and copy it to your Kafka install's ./libs directory.

$ mvn package
$ cp target/kafka-riemann-reporter-0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar $KAFKA_HOME/libs

Usage

You configure the kafka riemann reporter in your server.properties:

kafka.metrics.polling.interval.secs=5
kafka.metrics.reporters=org.pingles.kafka.KafkaRiemannReporter
kafka.riemann.metrics.reporter.enabled=true
kafka.riemann.metrics.reporter.publisher.host=127.0.0.1
kafka.riemann.metrics.reporter.publisher.port=5555