By default, the Java Agent detects publish activity to Apache Kafka as an exit point from a Java node. You can configure the Java Agent to detect Kafka consumer activity as an entry point, see Apache Kafka Consumer Backends.

Kafka Backend Naming Properties

You can enable or disable the use of the following properties for Kafka backend identification:

Default Kafka JMX Metrics

Kafka Producer and Consumer expose many JMX metrics. By default, we provide rules for some of these metrics. See Default JMX Metrics for Apache Kafka Backends. If you need to create a new rule, see Configure JMX Metrics from MBeans.