Kafka Consumer - JMX Properties

Question

I enabled JMX on the kafka brokers on port 8081. When I view the MBean properties in jConsole, I only see the following for kafka.consumer-

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Answer 1

This may help to find it for 0.8, but I am currently running a Kafka 0.10 broker and consumer. When using a console consumer, I pointed jconsole to this consumer and found on the MBeans TAB: kafka.consumer-> consumer-fetcher-manager-metric -> consumer-1 -> Attributes -> records-max-lag.

Answer 2

The JMX PORT you are listening is the broker port. But the Mbean of kafka.consumer: is the consumer jvm metrics. So if you have another JVM that is consume a topic, you can see kafka.consumer Mbeans.

Answer 3

ConsumerLag is an overloaded term in Kafka, it can stand for:

1. Consumer's metric: Calculated difference between a consumer's current log offset and a producer’s current log offset. You can find it under JMX bean, if you're using Java/Scala based consumer (e.g. pykafka consumer doesn't export metrics):

   • kafka v0.8.2.x:

     kafka.consumer:type= ConsumerFetcherManager, name=MaxLag, clientId=([-.\w]+) 
     

   • kafka v0.9+:

     kafka.consumer:type=consumer-fetch-manager-metrics,client-id=([-.w]+)
     

   Consumer lag used to be stored in ZooKeeper (Kafka <= v0.8), newer versions of Kafka have special topic __consumer_offsets that stores each consumer's lag. There are tools (e.g. kafka-manager) that can compute lag by consuming messages from this topic and calculating lag. In kafka-manager you have to enable this feature for each cluster:

   [ ] Poll consumer information (Not recommended for large # of consumers)

2. Broker's metric: Represent the offset differences between partition leaders and their followers. You can find this metric under JMX bean:

   kafka.server:type=FetcherLagMetrics,name=ConsumerLag,clientId=([-.\w]+),topic=([-.\w]+),partition=([0-9]+)