JMX monitoring for Kafka Distributed Connect Process

Visual VM provides and easy access to remote VM where can can monitor the JMX connection using the below configurations :

1) Open file kafka/kafka-0.9.0/bin/kafka-run-class.sh where we can add the required JMX configurations

 KAFKA_JMX_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1234 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=sn2"

2) Restart the kafka-connect distributed process.

3) Add JMX connection to remote VM using IP and port defined in #1

4) Now we can monitor the CPU , Heap , Classes loaded and Threads  usage details