Recommended Kafka Streaming Metrics

Streaming applications give the same metrics as consumers and producers. Streaming Metrics describes additional metrics specific to streaming.

The MBean for these metrics is kafka.streams:type=stream-metrics,thread.client-id=[threadId].

Table 1. Streaming Metrics
Name Description
poll-latency-avg The average execution time for polling, in milliseconds, across all running tasks of this thread.
process-latency-avg The average execution time in milliseconds, for the processing, across all running tasks of this thread.
commit-latency-avg The average execution time in milliseconds, for committing, across all running tasks of this thread.