Kafka ZooKeeper Exporter

A daemon that exposes Kafka cluster state stored in ZooKeeper.

Motivation

Metrics exported by kafka_zookeeper_exporter provide cluster level overview of the entire cluster and can be used along jmx_exporter which provides broker level data. jmx_exporter exports what each brokers believes to be true, but this information can be incorrect in case of a network partition or other split brain issues. ZooKeeper on the other hand is the source of truth for the entire cluster configuration and runtime status, so the metrics exported from it are the best representation of the entire cluster status.

Metrics

kafka_topic_partition_count

Number of partitions configured for given topic.

kafka_topic_partition_replica_count

Number of replicas configured for given topic.

kafka_topic_partition_leader

This metric will have value 1 for the replica that is currently the leader for given partition.

kafka_topic_partition_leader_is_preferred

Each Kafka partition have a list of replicas, the first replica is the preferred (default) leader. This metric will have value 1 if the current partition leader is the preferred one.

kafka_topic_partition_replica_in_sync

This metric will indicate whenever given replica is in sync with the partition leader.

Building

go get -u github.com/cloudflare/kafka_zookeeper_exporter
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cloudflare/kafka_zookeeper_exporter
make

Usage

Start the exporter

./kafka_zookeeper_exporter <flags>

To see the list of avaiable flags run

./kafka_zookeeper_exporter -h

Send a request to collect metrics

curl localhost:9381/kafka?zookeeper=10.0.0.1:2181&chroot=/kafka/cluster&topics=mytopic1,mytopic2

Where:

• zookeeper - required, address of the ZooKeeper used for Kafka, can be multiple addresses separated by comma
• chroot - required, path inside ZooKeeper where Kafka cluster data is stored
• topics - optional, list of topics to collect metrics for, if empty or missing then all topics will be collected

Prometheus configuration

Example Prometheus scrape job configuration:

- job_name: kafka_zookeeper_exporter_mycluster
  static_configs:
    - targets:
      # hostname and port `kafka-zookeeper-exporter` is listening on
      - myserver:9381
  metrics_path: /kafka
  scheme: http
  params:
    zookeeper: ['zk1.example.com:2181,zk2.example.com:2181']
    chroot: ['/kafka/mycluster']

This example uses static_configs to configure scrape target. See Prometheus docs for other ways to configure it.