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Kafka Emitter

To use this extension, make sure to include kafka-emitter extension.

Introduction

This extension emits Druid metrics to a Kafka directly with JSON format.
Currently, Kafka has not only their nice ecosystem but also consumer API readily available. So, If you currently use Kafka, It's easy to integrate various tool or UI to monitor the status of your Druid cluster with this extension.

Configuration

All the configuration parameters for the Kafka emitter are under druid.emitter.kafka.

property description required? default
druid.emitter.kafka.bootstrap.servers Comma-separated Kafka broker. ([hostname:port],[hostname:port]...) yes none
druid.emitter.kafka.metric.topic Kafka topic name for emitter's target to emit service metric. yes none
druid.emitter.kafka.alert.topic Kafka topic name for emitter's target to emit alert. yes none
druid.emitter.kafka.producer.config JSON formatted configuration which user want to set additional properties to Kafka producer. no none
druid.emitter.kafka.clusterName Optional value to specify name of your druid cluster. It can help make groups in your monitoring environment. no none

Example

druid.emitter.kafka.bootstrap.servers=hostname1:9092,hostname2:9092
druid.emitter.kafka.metric.topic=druid-metric
druid.emitter.kafka.alert.topic=druid-alert
druid.emitter.kafka.producer.config={"max.block.ms":10000}