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= Retrieving JMX metrics with JMXTrans

JmxTrans is a way of retrieving JMX metrics data from Java processes and pushing that data in various formats to remote sinks inside or outside of the cluster.
JmxTrans can communicate with a secure JMX port.
{ProductName} supports using JmxTrans to read JMX data from Kafka brokers.

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include::../modules/proc-jmxtrans-deployment.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

== Additional resources

For more information about the Jmxtrans see link:https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans[Jmxtrans github]

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