# Kafka Metrics Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Kafka Metrics Receiver collects kafka metrics (brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups) from a kafka server, and converts them into otlp.

- **Component ID**: `contrib-kafkametricsreceiver`
- **Name**: `kafkametricsreceiver`
- **Type**: receiver
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| beta | metrics |

## Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `broker` | string | The ID of the kafka broker |
| `group` | string | The ID (string) of a consumer group |
| `partition` | int | The number (integer) of the partition |
| `topic` | string | The ID (integer) of a topic |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-kafkametricsreceiver/contrib-kafkametricsreceiver-592aa7379821.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-kafkametricsreceiver/contrib-kafkametricsreceiver-592aa7379821.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/kafkametricsreceiver](/collector/components/contrib/kafkametricsreceiver)