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As owner of Kafka cluster, but not the owner of clients, I am not capable of telling which topics/partitions are being actively read from (= have running clients that are sending fetch requests).
The existing metric kafka.server:type=BrokerTopicMetrics,name=TotalFetchRequestsPerSec,topic=topic aggregates both fetch requests made by clients and replicas.
So for partitions with replication factor > 1, even if the partition is no longer read from by clients, the above metric is still growing due to requests made by replicas.
The following new broker-side metric is proposed:
It would be similar to the already-existing TotalFetchRequestsPerSec metric.
These are new metrics and there should be no impact on existing users.