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Enable Apache Kafka health monitoring

Set configurations in the Apache HTTP server application to enable the Agent Client Collector to perform Apache Kafka HTTP server monitoring.

Before you begin

  • Enable Java Management Extensions (JMX) for Kafka metric collection by running the following command:

    Environment=”JMX_PORT=9999”
    
  • Role required: agent_client_collector_admin

Procedure

  1. Enable collecting Apache Kafka performance metrics using Java Management Extensions (JMX) by running the following command:

    JMX_PORT=9999 bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties
    
  2. Configure the admin server port by modifying the port number of the admin.serverPort property in the zookeeper.properties file.

    The default port is 8080.

Parent Topic:Deploying Agent Client Collector on both servers and endpoints