# How to enable JMX port in Confluent Cloud?

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482>\
**Category:** Confluent Cloud\
**Created:** [14 April 2021 13:16 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482 "2021-04-14T13:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![dragan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dragan/32/350_2.png) [@dragan](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dragan)\
**Post date:** [14 April 2021 13:16 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482/1 "2021-04-14T13:16:49Z")

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Hi,  
The most of examples, which I`ve seen for this topic, refers to K8S/Docker approach where we could add env var JMX\_PORT and set up \*\_OPTS with jmx exporter agent (or external jmx exporter).

How does it work with Confluent Cloud resources (kafka brokers, kafka connect etc)?

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**Author:** ![ybyzek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/ybyzek/32/70_2.png) [@ybyzek](https://forum.confluent.io/u/ybyzek)\
**Post date:** [14 April 2021 13:28 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482/2 "2021-04-14T13:28:54Z")

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Hi, welcome! [This thread](https://forum.confluent.io/t/monitoring-strategy/658) covers monitoring a bit. Generally speaking, the way to monitor your Kafka client applications and resources in Confluent Cloud is with the [Metrics API](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/monitoring/metrics-api.html)

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**Author:** ![dragan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dragan/32/350_2.png) [@dragan](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dragan)\
**Post date:** [15 April 2021 06:49 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482/3 "2021-04-15T06:49:30Z")

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Thanks for quick response.

So instead of JMX in Confluent Cloud we could use Metrics API and [GitHub - Dabz/ccloudexporter: Prometheus exporter for Confluent Cloud API metric](https://github.com/Dabz/ccloudexporter) to integrate it with Prometheus. Makes sense

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/confluentcommunity/original/1X/c49438c90c9df282e9996fdf6971be890c71b65a.svg) [@system](https://forum.confluent.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [22 April 2021 06:49 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-enable-jmx-port-in-confluent-cloud/1482/4 "2021-04-22T06:49:52Z")

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