Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"Adopted

Discussion thread: here 

JIRA: KAFKA-6986 

Released: 2.1.0

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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By adding metrics(), now any client can get the metrics from AdminClient, this is a should-have function since all the other clients (producer, consumer...) have it, this will help to gain more visibility for those application that use admin client.

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• No known compatibility issues. This is thread-safe because the use of an 

  unmodifiableMap.

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