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
| Author | Colin McCabe |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 2.6 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-9292 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2019-12-10 |
| Last Modified | 2020-01-16 |
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