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out_kafka: emit a metric when librdkafka signals an error #9588

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seveas commented Nov 12, 2024

Curl output showing the metric using a config that's intentionally broken (bad auth). As you can see no dropped records according to existing metrics, but the new metric shows the errors.

$ curl --silent  http://localhost:2020/api/v2/metrics/prometheus | grep azure
fluentbit_output_proc_records_total{name="azure"} 5744
fluentbit_output_proc_bytes_total{name="azure"} 7000396
fluentbit_output_errors_total{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_retries_total{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_retries_failed_total{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_dropped_records_total{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_retried_records_total{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_kafka_errors_total{name="azure"} 1607
fluentbit_output_upstream_total_connections{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_upstream_busy_connections{name="azure"} 0
fluentbit_output_chunk_available_capacity_percent{name="azure"} 100

@seveas seveas changed the title Kafka errors metric out_kafka: emit a metric when librdkafka signals an error Nov 12, 2024
The async nature of the kafka output makes the
fluentbit_output_dropped_records_total insufficient to determine whether there
are problems sending messages to kafka. fluent-bit considers a message
delivered when it has been added to the librdkafka buffers. If librdkafka
subsequently fails to deliver the message, the only feedback is a log message
such as:

```
[2024/11/12 07:56:45] [ warn] [output:kafka:azure] message delivery failed: Local: Message timed out
```

So let's add a metric that exposes how often librdkafka signals that it has
problems talking to kafka.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
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