Skip to main content
Version: 4.5.1

Metric collection

BookKeeper enables metrics collection through a variety of stats providers.

Stats providers

BookKeeper has stats provider implementations for four five sinks:

ProviderProvider class name
Codahale Metricsorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.CodahaleMetricsProvider
Prometheusorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.PrometheusMetricsProvider
Finagleorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.FinagleStatsProvider
Ostrichorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.OstrichProvider
Twitter Science Providerorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.TwitterStatsProvider

The Codahale Metrics stats provider is the default provider.

Enabling stats providers in bookies

Two stats-related configuration parameters are available for bookies:

ParameterDescriptionDefault
enableStatisticsWhether statistics are enabled for the bookiefalse
statsProviderClassThe stats provider class used by the bookieorg.apache.bookkeeper.stats.CodahaleMetricsProvider

To enable stats:

  • set the enableStatistics parameter to true
  • set statsProviderClass to the desired provider (see the table above for a listing of classes)