Zookeeper

Basic information

Connectivity to Zookeeper is optional for Lenses. Zookeeper is used by Lenses for such purposes:

To provide quotas management (until quotas can be managed via the Brokers API)
To autodetect the JMX connectivity settings to Kafka brokers (if metrics are not defined directly for Kafka connection ).

Once a Zookeeper connection is defined, Lenses displays all Zookeeper nodes and their statuses (with metrics, if configured so) in Workspace -> Services screen.

Some managed Kafka services, such as these provided by Aiven, Confluent, and IBM Event Streams do not provide access to Zookeeper.

Connection details

Like other core services, Zookeeper is managed via Connections. See more about managing connections here .

Multiple connections allowed: NO

Deletion allowed: YES

When managing connections other than with GUI, such information are relevant for Zookeeper connection:

Template name: Zookeeper

Constant connection name: zookeeper

Examples

The easiest way to manage Connections is via Lenses GUI under their respective pages, however it is also possible to do it directly via API, Helm or Lenses CLI. In such case, some connection type-specific values have to be used. Here are few examples of such configuration in YAML format.

Find out more about managing Zookeeper Connection via API
Find out more about managing Connections via Lenses CLI provision
Find out more about installing Lenses via Helm

Simple configuration, without metrics

  zookeeper:
    tags: [ "tag1" ]
    templateName: Zookeeper
    configurationObject:
      zookeeperUrls:
        - my-zookeeper-host-0:2181
        - my-zookeeper-host-1:3181
        - my-zookeeper-host-2:4181
      zookeeperChrootPath: "/mypath" # optional, to add a suffix to Zookeeper's connection string
      zookeeperSessionTimeout: 10000 # in milliseconds
      zookeeperConnectionTimeout: 10000 # in milliseconds

Simple configuration, with JMX metrics

Simple configuration with Zookeeper metrics read via JMX.

  zookeeper:
    tags: [ "tag1" ]
    templateName: Zookeeper
    configurationObject:
      zookeeperUrls:
        - my-zookeeper-host-0:2181
        - my-zookeeper-host-1:3181
        - my-zookeeper-host-2:4181
      zookeeperSessionTimeout: 10000 # in milliseconds
      zookeeperConnectionTimeout: 10000 # in milliseconds
      # all metrics properties are optional
      metricsPort: 9581
      metricsType: JMX
      metricsSsl: false

With such a configuration, Lenses will use 3 Zookeeper nodes and will try to read their metrics from following urls (notice the same port - 9581 - used for all of them, as defined by metricsPort property):

my-zookeeper-host-0:9581
my-zookeeper-host-1:9581
my-zookeeper-host-2:9581

Misc metrics configurations

Find more about multiple options of configuring services’ metrics (like secured JMX, Jolokia, etc) under Services Metrics