kafka-healthcheck

A simple healthcheck wrapper to monitor Kafka.

Kafka Healthcheck is a simple server that provides a singular API endpoint to determine the health of a Kafka instance. This can be used to alert or take action on unhealthy Kafka instances.

The service checks the health by sending kafkacat about that kafkacat

This project is a copy "devshawn" whit modifications for use kafkacat

Usage

Kafka Healthcheck can be installed via pip. Both python and pip are required, as well as kafkacat.

Command-Line

Install kafka-healthcheck via pip:

pip install kafka-healthcheck

To start the healthcheck server, run:

kafka-healthcheck

The server will now be running on localhost:9290.

Docker solution

Run kafka-healthcheck via dockerhub:

docker run -it --network=host -p 9290:9290 \
-e HEALTHCHECK_PORT=9290 \
-e HEALTHCHECK_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG  \
-e HEALTHCHECK_KAFKA_HOST=localhost \
-e HEALTHCHECK_KAFKA_PORT=9092 \
mysery/kafka-healthcheck:0.0.1 kafka-healthcheck

That start docker healtcheck if you have docker in localhost

Configuration

Kafka Healthcheck can be configured via command-line arguments or by environment variables.

Port

The port for the kafka-healthcheck API.

Usage	Value
Environment Variable	HEALTHCHECK_PORT
Command-Line Argument	--port
Default Value	9290

Kafka Host

The host of the Kafka instance to run the health check against. This is used with kafkacat.

Usage	Value
Environment Variable	HEALTHCHECK_KAFKA_HOST
Command-Line Argument	--kafka-host
Default Value	localhost

Kafka Port

The port of the Kafka instance to run the health check against. This is used with kafkacat.

Usage	Value
Environment Variable	HEALTHCHECK_KAFKA_PORT
Command-Line Argument	--kafka-port
Default Value	9092

Log Level

The level of logs to be shown by the application.

Usage	Value
Environment Variable	HEALTHCHECK_LOG_LEVEL
Command-Line Argument	--log-level
Default Value	INFO
Valid Values	DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR

All healthy responses are logged at DEBUG. Unhealthy responses are logged at WARNING. Any unexpected errors are logged at ERROR.

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Shawn Seymour.

Extended Copyright (c) 2022 Rodrigo Garcia.

Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.