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Monitoring Starlight for Kafka

Starlight for Kafka exposes the following metrics in Prometheus format. You can monitor your clusters with these metrics.

The following types of metrics are available:

  • Counter: a cumulative metric that represents a single monotonically increasing counter. The value increases by default. You can reset the value to zero or restart your cluster.

  • Gauge: a metric that represents a single numerical value that can arbitrarily go up and down.

  • Histogram: a histogram samples observations (usually things like request durations or response sizes) and counts them in configurable buckets.

  • Summary: similar to a histogram, a summary samples observations (usually things like request durations and response sizes). While it also provides a total count of observations and a sum of all observed values, it calculates configurable quantiles over a sliding time window.

Starlight for Kafka metrics

The Starlight for Kafka metrics are exposed under /metrics` at port 8000 along with Pulsar metrics. Use a different port by configuring the stats_server_port system property.

Request metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_ALIVE_CHANNEL_COUNT

Gauge

The number of alive request channels

kop_server_ACTIVE_CHANNEL_COUNT

Gauge

The number of active request channels

Request metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_REQUEST_QUEUE_SIZE

Gauge

The number of requests in S4K request processing queue of the total request channel.

kop_server_REQUEST_QUEUED_LATENCY

Summary

The requests queued latency calculated in milliseconds
Available labels: request (ApiVersions, Metadata, Produce, FindCoordinator, ListOffsets, OffsetFetch, OffsetCommit, Fetch, JoinGroup, SyncGroup, Heartbeat, LeaveGroup, DescribeGroups, ListGroups, DeleteGroups, SaslHandshake, SaslAuthenticate, CreateTopics, InitProducerId, AddPartitionsToTxn, AddOffsetsToTxn, TxnOffsetCommit, EndTxn, WriteTxnMarkers, DescribeConfigs, DeleteTopics)

kop_server_REQUEST_PARSE_LATENCY

Summary

The requests parse latency from byteBuf to MemoryRecords calculated in milliseconds

kop_server_REQUEST_LATENCY

Summary

The requests processing total latency for all Kafka APIs
Available labels: request (ApiVersions, Metadata, Produce, FindCoordinator, ListOffsets, OffsetFetch, OffsetCommit, Fetch, JoinGroup, SyncGroup, Heartbeat, LeaveGroup, DescribeGroups, ListGroups, DeleteGroups, SaslHandshake, SaslAuthenticate, CreateTopics, InitProducerId, AddPartitionsToTxn, AddOffsetsToTxn, TxnOffsetCommit, EndTxn, WriteTxnMarkers, DescribeConfigs, DeleteTopics)

Response metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_RESPONSE_BLOCKED_TIMES

Counter

The response blocked times due to waiting for process completes

kop_server_RESPONSE_BLOCKED_LATENCY

Summary

The response blocked latency calculated in milliseconds

Producer metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_PRODUCE_ENCODE

Summary

The memory record encode latency

kop_server_MESSAGE_PUBLISH

Summary

The message publish latency to Pulsar ManagedLedger

kop_server_MESSAGE_QUEUED_LATENCY

Summary

The message queued latency in S4K message publish queue

kop_server_BYTES_IN

Counter

The producer bytes in stats.
Available labels: topic, partition.
topic: the topic name to produce.
partition: the partition id for the topic to produce

kop_server_MESSAGE_IN

Counter

The producer message in stats.
Available labels: topic, partition.
topic: the topic name to produce.
partition: the partition id for the topic to produce

kop_server_BATCH_COUNT_PER_MEMORYRECORDS

Gauge

The number of batches in each memory records

kop_server_PRODUCE_MESSAGE_CONVERSIONS

Counter

The producer message conversions in stats.
Available labels: topic, partition.
topic: the topic name to produce.
partition: the partition id for the topic to produce

Consumer metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_PREPARE_METADATA

Summary

The prepare metadata latency in milliseconds before starting fetch from Pulsar ManagedLedger

kop_server_TOTAL_MESSAGE_READ

Summary

The total message read latency in milliseconds in this fetch request

kop_server_MESSAGE_READ

Summary

The message read latency in milliseconds for one cursor read entry request

kop_server_FETCH_DECODE

Summary

The message decode latency in milliseconds

kop_server_BYTES_OUT

Counter

The consumer bytes out stats
Available labels: topic, partition, group
topic: the topic name to consume.
partition: the partition id for the topic to consume
group: the group id for consumer to consumer message from topic-partition

kop_server_MESSAGE_OUT

Counter

The consumer message out stats
Available labels: topic, partition, group
topic: the topic name to consume
partition: the partition id for the topic to consume
group: the group id for consumer to consumer message from topic-partition

kop_server_ENTRIES_OUT

Counter

The consumer entries out stats
Available labels: topic, partition, group
topic: the topic name to consume
partition: the partition id for the topic to consume
group: the group id for consumer to consumer message from topic-partition

kop_server_CONSUME_MESSAGE_CONVERSIONS

Counter

The consumer message conversions in stats
Available labels: topic, partition
topic: the topic name to consume
partition: the partition id for the topic to consume

S4K event metrics

Name Type Description

kop_server_KOP_EVENT_QUEUE_SIZE

Gauge

The total number of events in S4K event processing queue.

kop_server_KOP_EVENT_QUEUED_LATENCY

Summary

The events queued latency calculated in milliseconds.
Available labels: event (DeleteTopicsEvent, BrokersChangeEvent, ShutdownEventThread).

kop_server_KOP_EVENT_LATENCY

Summary

The events processing total latency for all S4K event types.
Available labels: event (DeleteTopicsEvent, BrokersChangeEvent, ShutdownEventThread).

What’s next?

For more on Starlight for Kafka, see:

  • Starlight for Kafka Configuration

  • Starlight for Kafka Implementation

  • Starlight for Kafka Proxy

  • Starlight for Kafka Schema Registry

  • Quickstart

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