kafka and JMX-exporter

Question

I am unable to use JMX exporter to expose kafka metrics. Can you look at my steps and correct me where needed.? I am following steps here to enable kafka with JMX exporter.

Answer 1

thank you cricket-007 for your help. I am listing steps i followed here for simplicity

wget -q -O /tmp/kafka.tgz https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.0.0/kafka_2.11-2.0.0.tgz
tar -xf /tmp/kafka.tgz --directory /opt/kafka --strip 1
rm -f /tmp/kafka.tgz

wget -q -O /tmp/kafka.tgz https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.0.0/kafka_2.11-2.0.0.tgz
mkdir /opt/kafka
tar -xf /tmp/kafka.tgz --directory /opt/kafka --strip 1
rm -f /tmp/kafka.tgz
sudo wget -P /opt/kafka/prometheus/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prometheus/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent/0.12.0/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.12.0.jar
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/master/example_configs/kafka-2_0_0.yml
cd kafka
export KAFKA_OPTS="-javaagent:/opt/kafka/prometheus/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.12.0.jar=7071:/opt/kafka/prometheus/kafka-2_0_0.yml"
export KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS="-Xmx1000M -Xms1000M"
mv ../kafka-2_0_0.yml prometheus/
/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties
netstat -tlnpu |grep 70

tcp6       0      0 :::7071                 :::*                    LISTEN      209455/java         
udp6       0      0 :::40705                :::*      

curl -s localhost_or_IP:7071 | grep -i kafka
long list of metrics will be dumped on stdout                          -