[KAFKA-15396] Add a metric indicating the version of the current running kafka server

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: core
• Labels: kip-required
• Assignee: hudeqi
• Reporter: hudeqi
• Created: 23/Aug/23 12:59
• Updated: 18/Apr/24 06:44

Description

At present, it is impossible to perceive the Kafka version that the broker is running from the perspective of metrics. If multiple Kafka versions are deployed in a cluster due to various reasons, it is difficult for us to intuitively understand the version distribution.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14284
• links to: KIP-972