Status
Current State: Under Discussion
Discussion Thread: here
JIRA: - KAFKA-5461Getting issue details... STATUS
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Motivation
There is currently no metric that captures the total number of topics in a Kafka cluster. It would be useful to maintain a total topic count metric on the Kafka Controller
.
Public Interface
There are no programming public interface changes. We are only adding a new metric.
Proposed Changes
The metric name would be:
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TotalTopicCount
is updated when the ControllerEventThread
gets a TopicChange
and TopicDeletion request and is purged when on Controller
failover.
Compatibility, Depreciation and Migration Plan
The changes are completely backward compatible.
Reject Alternatives
TotalTopicCount
metric is collected from the MetadataCache
for each Broker
. It was rejected because it is not the source of truth (as opposed to the controller metric). The metric is good to have and also helps identify delays in propagation of metadata updates to the brokers.
kafka.server:type=MetadataCache,name=TotalTopicCount
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