Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread: here

JIRA:

Motivation

Kafka metrics have traditionally followed a consistent naming convention using the kafka.<COMPONENT> format. However, some inconsistencies were unintentionally introduced during recent refactorings:

• The metrics under org.apache.kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager were originally named using the kafka.<COMPONENT> format. This changed unexpectedly when classes were moved from the kafka.server package to org.apache.kafka.server as part of this commit.
• Similarly, the org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool metric was initially intended to follow the same convention. However, an incorrect metric name was introduced during initialization in a later patch.

These changes went unnoticed, and subsequent users began using the new org.apache.kafka.<COMPONENT> pattern, diverging from the established convention.

This KIP proposes to standardize Kafka metric naming by reverting the following metrics to the correct kafka.<COMPONENT> format to ensure consistency across the system:

• org.apache.kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager → kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager

• org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool → kafka.log.remote:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool

This change will align these metrics with the broader Kafka metrics ecosystem and avoid confusion for users and tooling that rely on consistent naming.

Public Interface

• org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log.RemoteStorageThreadPool 
• org.apache.kafka.server.log.remote.storage.RemoteStorageMetrics 

• org.apache.kafka.server.AssignmentsManager

Proposed Changes

Introduce new metrics, consistent with other Kafka metrics.

This change will impact external monitoring systems that rely on the old metric name; corresponding updates will be required.

Deprecate the following metrics

• org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderTaskQueueSize
• org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderAvgIdlePercent
• org.apache.kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager

Introduce following new metric: 

• kafka.log.remote:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderAvgIdlePercent
• kafka.log.remote:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderTaskQueueSize
• kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager

This change will impact external monitoring systems that rely on the old metric name; corresponding updates will be required.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

1. We will add a deprecated annotation on following constant
   1. `RemoteStorageMetrics#REMOTE_LOG_READER_TASK_QUEUE_SIZE_METRIC`
   2. `RemoteStorageMetrics#REMOTE_LOG_READER_AVG_IDLE_PERCENT_METRIC`
   3. `AssignmentsManager#QUEUED_REPLICA_TO_DIR_ASSIGNMENTS_METRIC`
2. Update the Kafka documentation to note MBean will be replaced
   1. org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderTaskQueueSize
   2. org.apache.kafka.storage.internals.log:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderAvgIdlePercent
   3. `org.apache.kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager`
3. Register foloowing new metrics
   1. `kafka.log.remote:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderTaskQueueSize`
   2. `kafka.log.remote:type=RemoteStorageThreadPool.RemoteLogReaderAvgIdlePercent`
   3. `kafka.server:type=AssignmentsManager`
4. Delete following all usage in code base.
   1. `RemoteStorageMetrics#REMOTE_LOG_READER_TASK_QUEUE_SIZE_METRIC`
   2. `RemoteStorageMetrics#REMOTE_LOG_READER_AVG_IDLE_PERCENT_METRIC`
   3. `AssignmentsManager#QUEUED_REPLICA_TO_DIR_ASSIGNMENTS_METRIC`

Test Plan

• Add new tests to verify the new metric is correctly registered and behaves as expected.
• Ensure backward compatibility by verifying deprecated metric behavior until removal.

Rejected Alternatives

n/a