# App for monitoring Kafka consumer lag
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311 "2017-05-18T17:35:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@John\_06](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_06)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/1 "2017-05-18T17:35:03Z")
I am wondering if there is an alternative to Kafkabeat app to perform Kafka consumer lag monitoring.
It looks like Metricbeat doesn't collect related metrics.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/2 "2017-05-19T10:56:28Z")
metricbeat supports kafka, but can not capture consumer lag due to this bug: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/4285](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/4285)
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### Author:  [@John\_06](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_06)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/3 "2017-05-20T19:44:15Z")
Could you please tell me what is the Metricbeat metric name for consumer lag?
It looks like consumer lag can be calculated as difference between `kafka.partition.offset.newest` and `kafka.consumergroup.offset` metrics.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/4 "2017-05-22T13:06:33Z")
Partition and consumergroup are currently the two available metricsets: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-kafka.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-kafka.html)
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### Author:  [@John\_06](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_06)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/5 "2017-05-22T15:43:39Z")
I see. Curious if there is the same bug in version 5.4.0
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/6 "2017-05-23T13:04:21Z")
Yes, the same problem that Steffen linked is also in 5.4.
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### Author:  [@John\_06](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_06)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/7 "2017-06-02T15:54:22Z")
Just curious if Metricbeat team is going to fix that bug? I can see it was opened 23 days ago.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-for-monitoring-kafka-consumer-lag/86311/8 "2017-06-30T15:54:23Z")
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