Please publish a release including merged PR #506

[lcharpentier-dzr]

Request

Could you publish a new release of kafka_exporter including the changes from PR #506?

PR #506 was merged on April 10, 2026:

• PR: add concurrent workers for consumer group metrics collection #506
• Merge commit: 2d09f45

The latest published release is currently v1.9.0, which predates PR #506:

• Latest release: https://github.com/danielqsj/kafka_exporter/releases/tag/v1.9.0

Motivation

We are using kafka_exporter to collect Kafka metrics for Prometheus. During Kafka rolling maintenance, when one broker is stopped for an upgrade or security update, the exporter can become slow or temporarily unavailable while collecting consumer group metrics.

This causes Prometheus scrape failures and intermittent gaps in metrics:

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