Exporter not picking up AWS/Kafka metrics

I am able to get metrics using the exporter tool for other AWS resources but when attempting to use for Kafka, no metrics are being retrieved:

`HELP tagging_api_requests_total API requests made to the Resource Groups Tagging API TYPE tagging_api_requests_total counter

HELP cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds Time this CloudWatch scrape took, in seconds.

TYPE cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds gauge cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_duration_seconds 0.0403737

HELP cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error Non-zero if this scrape failed.

TYPE cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error gauge

cloudwatch_exporter_scrape_error 0.0

HELP cloudwatch_requests_total API requests made to CloudWatch

TYPE cloudwatch_requests_total counter

cloudwatch_requests_total{action=“listMetrics”,namespace=“AWS/Kafka”,} 16.0`

There is not any examples of using Kafka in the repository, does anyone know if it has been successfully used for Kafka before?

[vasrem]

BTW guys, JFYI you have to specify both aws_dimensions to get the metrics back as @RmMsr described.

[RmMsr]

Hi @jim5252 ,

we experienced the same problem. After quite a while of experimenting we noticed that the naming is crucial. For example the dimensions must be identical to the AWS naming with case and whitespace.

Example:

metrics:
  - aws_namespace: AWS/Kafka
    aws_metric_name: KafkaDataLogsDiskUsed
    aws_dimensions: [Broker ID, Cluster Name]
    aws_statistics: [Maximum]