bash - kafka and JMX-exporter

Question

I am unable to use JMX exporter to expose kafka metrics. Can you look at my steps and correct me where needed.? I am following steps here to enable kafka with JMX exporter.

Following are step by step instruction I followed

#get kafka
wget kafka_2.11-2.0.0

# Download Prometheus JMX exporter:
sudo wget -P /opt/kafka/prometheus/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prometheus/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent/0.3.0/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar
sudo wget -P /opt/kafka/prometheus/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/master/example_configs/kafka-0-8-2.yml

#Edit Prometheus JMX exporter config file; and append following lines 
echo  “- pattern : kafka.producer<type=producer-metrics, client-id=(.+)><>(.+):w* name: kafka_producer_$2” >> /opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0-8-2.yml
echo  “— pattern : kafka.consumer<type=consumer-metrics, client-id=(.+)><>(.+):w* name: kafka_consumer_$2” >> /opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0-8-2.yml
echo  “— pattern : kafka.consumer<type=consumer-fetch-manager-metrics, client-id=(.+)><>(.+):w* name: kafka_consumer_$2” >> /opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0-8-2.yml


#start zookeeper in terminal 0
/opt/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties


#start kafka broker in terminal 1
KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS=’”-Xmx1000M -Xms1000M”’ 
KAFKA_OPTS=”-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar=7071:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0–8–2.yml” 
JMX_PORT=7071
/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties  


#start kafka consumer in terminal 2
KAFKA_OPTS=”-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar=7072:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0–8–2.yml” 
JMX_PORT=7072
/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh — bootstrap-server 0.0.0.0:9092 — topic test — from-beginning

#start kafka producer in terminal 3
KAFKA_OPTS=”-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar=7073:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0–8–2.yml” 
JMX_PORT=7073
/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh — broker-list 0.0.0.0:9092 — topic test

After above steps zookeeper and kafka is running fine. I can type in producer terminal a message and it is received on consumer console. However no kafka metrics is visible on Prometheus. To debug this I checked ports 7071/2/3 by

netstat -tlnp | grep 7071
netstat -tlnp | grep 7072
netstat -tlnp | grep 7073

which resulted in blank response; this means no service is using above ports. I feel like JMX exporter is not enabled correctly.

Can you help me with above issues?

Answer 1

From the looks of your question, you put the variables on their own lines, while the blog has them on the same line...

e.g. This is how to start the Kafka server

KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS='"-Xmx1000M -Xms1000M"' KAFKA_OPTS='-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar=7071:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0–8–2.yml' JMX_PORT=7081 /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties

Otherwise, you need to export the variables so the sub-process will pick them up like you did in your previous question, which seemed to be working fine for exposing the metrics

export KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS='"-Xmx1000M -Xms1000M"'
export KAFKA_OPTS='-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.3.0.jar=7071:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-0–8–2.yml'
export JMX_PORT=7081
/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties

Note: The blog you linked to doesn't use JMX_PORT, but those ports cannot be the same as the exporter.

I would also suggest at least downloading a version newer than 0.3 - https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prometheus/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent/

and using the configs for Kafka 2.0 - https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/blob/master/example_configs/kafka-2_0_0.yml

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Sidenote: netstat -tlnp | grep 707 would show you all them at once