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prometheus.exporter.kafka

The prometheus.exporter.kafka component embeds the kafka_exporter for collecting metrics from a Kafka server.

Usage

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prometheus.exporter.kafka "<LABEL>" {
    kafka_uris = "<KAFKA_URI_LIST>"
}

Arguments

You can use the following arguments with prometheus.exporter.kafka:

Blocks

The prometheus.exporter.kafka component doesn’t support any blocks. You can configure this component with arguments.

Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components.

For example, the targets can either be passed to a discovery.relabel component to rewrite the targets’ label sets or to a prometheus.scrape component that collects the exposed metrics.

The exported targets use the configured in-memory traffic address specified by the run command.

Component health

prometheus.exporter.kafka is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration. In those cases, exported fields retain their last healthy values.

Debug information

prometheus.exporter.kafka doesn’t expose any component-specific debug information.

Debug metrics

prometheus.exporter.kafka doesn’t expose any component-specific debug metrics.

Example

This example uses a prometheus.scrape component to collect metrics from prometheus.exporter.kafka:

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prometheus.exporter.kafka "example" {
  kafka_uris = ["localhost:9200"]
}

// Configure a prometheus.scrape component to send metrics to.
prometheus.scrape "demo" {
  targets    = prometheus.exporter.kafka.example.targets
  forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.demo.receiver]
}

prometheus.remote_write "demo" {
  endpoint {
    url = "<PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL>"

    basic_auth {
      username = "<USERNAME>"
      password = "<PASSWORD>"
    }
  }
}

Replace the following:

• <PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL>: The URL of the Prometheus remote_write compatible server to send metrics to.
• <USERNAME>: The username to use for authentication to the remote_write API.
• <PASSWORD>: The password to use for authentication to the remote_write API.

Compatible components

prometheus.exporter.kafka has exports that can be consumed by the following components:

• Components that consume Targets