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KIP-551 — Expose disk read and write metrics

Accepted Kafka 2.6 MetricsBroker

Adds two broker-level JMX gauges — TotalDiskReadBytes and TotalDiskWriteBytes — measuring physical disk I/O bytes excluding page cache hits. Without direct disk I/O metrics, operators cannot distinguish whether broker latency is caused by page cache misses versus network or CPU pressure.

Details

AuthorColin McCabe
StatusAccepted
Kafka Version2.6
JIRAKAFKA-9292
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Created2019-12-10
Last Modified2020-01-16
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