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One of the key goals of this KIP is to have the proposed metrics and telemetry interface generally available and enabled by default in all of the mainstream Kafka clients, allowing troubleshooting and monitoring as needed without interaction from cluster end-users (user .

User privacy is an important concern and extra care is taken in this proposal )to not expose any information that may compromise the privacy of the client user.

Public Interfaces

This KIP introduces the following new public interfaces:

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