Monitor Using Health+ Dashboard for Confluent Platform

Access the Health+ Monitoring Dashboard with the following steps.

  1. In your on-premises Confluent Platform cluster, enable telemetry for Health+.

  2. Log in to Confluent Cloud.

  3. Navigate to Clusters to open the Health+ clusters page.

  4. Click the cluster tile for your Confluent Platform deployment to open the monitoring dashboard.

Dashboard features

Your Health+ metrics are organized into a convenient dashboard with the following health categories. Each category has an overview page that you can click into to see details.

Health+ Monitoring Dashboard time period dropdown

Each metric is displayed as a time-series graph showing the most recent data. Click the dropdown to set the time period you want to view, which can range from the last hour to the last 30 days.

Health+ Monitoring Dashboard time period dropdown

Hover over a graph to see details about the metric at a specific time. If there are multiple graphs, cursor lines indicating the values of other metrics at the same sample time appear.

Health+ Monitoring Dashboard graphs

Click a graph to open the details view for the metric. Hover over the graph to show the cursor, and click to lock the cursor to a specific sample time. If you pick a different time window, the locked cursor remains visible at the selected sample time.

Health+ Monitoring Dashboard details view for broker production

Dashboards and metrics

The following sections list the available dashboards and metrics that you can monitor.

Kafka cluster

Metrics for your Kafka cluster deployment.

  • Leaders: number of leaders on the current broker

  • Offline partitions: number of partitions that don’t have an active leader

  • Under replicated partitions: number of under-replicated partitions

  • Brokers: number of brokers in your cluster

  • Under min ISR partitions: number of partitions that have an in-sync replicas count less than minIsr

  • Active controller count: number of active controllers

  • Unclean leader elections: total number of unclean leader elections

System

Metrics for the system that’s hosting your Kafka cluster.

  • Volume utilization: percentage of disk usage across brokers

  • Broker disk usage: sum of disk usage across brokers, in GB

Producers

Metrics for producers on your Kafka Server.

  • Producer broker latency: maximum producer latency across brokers

  • Failed produce requests: topic failed produce rate

Consumers

Metrics for consumer groups on your Kafka Server.

  • Consumer broker latency: maximum consumer latency across brokers

  • Failed consume requests: topic failed fetch rate

Throughput

Number of bytes produced and consumed per cluster and per broker.

  • Cluster production: current cluster production being used

  • Broker production: sum of current production across brokers

  • Cluster consumption: current cluster consumption being used

  • Broker consumption: sum of current consumption across brokers

Thread utilization

  • Network processor pool usage: maximum network pool usage across brokers

  • Request IO usage: maximum request IO usage across brokers

Topics

  • Active topics: total active topics in your cluster

  • Topics with consumer lag total topics presenting consumer lag (only for brokers running Confluent Platform 7.3 or later)

Connect

Metrics about your Connect cluster.

  • Failed connectors: number of connectors that have failed

  • Degraded connectors: number of connectors that are running in a degraded state

  • Running connectors: number of running connectors

  • Dead letter produce requests: number of DLQ produce requests

ksqlDB

Metrics about your ksqlDB cluster.

  • Running queries: number of running persistent queries

  • Error queries: number of persistent queries in an error state

  • Error rate: number of messages that were consumed but not processed

Settings

Access settings for the Health+ cluster.

  • Cluster name

  • Cluster ID

  • Cluster type

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