View Topic Metrics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform

You can view production, consumption, and consumer lag metrics for a topic if you are running Control Center in Normal mode.

Important

If you are running Control Center in Reduced infrastructure mode, you cannot view topic metrics.

View topic production metrics

View throughput and failed produce requests.

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Manage Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform opens.

2. Click the topic name link. The Topic details opens.

   

   Topics Overview clickable metrics panels

3. Click the Production panel to access the metrics.

   

   Production metrics for an individual topic

View topic consumption metrics

View throughput, failed consumer requests, percentage of messages consumed, and end-to-end latency.

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Manage Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform opens.

2. Click the topic name link. The Topic details opens.

3. Click the Consumption panel to access the metrics.

   

   Consumption metrics for an individual topic

View topic availability metrics

View charts of under-replicated partitions and out of sync replicas.

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Manage Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform opens.

2. Click the topic name link. The Topic details opens.

3. Click the Availability panel to access the metrics.

   

   Availability metrics for an individual topic

View consumer lag for a topic

View consumer lag for an individual topic in a consumer group.

Tip

You can view consumer lag for a consumer group from the Consumers menu.

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Manage Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform opens.

2. Click the topic name link. The Topic details opens.

3. Click the Consumption panel.

4. Click the Consumer Lag tab. The consumer lag details are displayed for the topic, including:

   • Total messages behind and the measured interval.
   • A visualization of lag. The Maximum lag per consumer graph displays a pin point of each partition in the topic.
   

   Consumer lag for an individual topic in a consumer group

5. To view details for a particular point on the graph, click its pin. View the Consumer, Partition, Current offset, and Messages behind for that particular point.

   

   Tip

   Click Set up an alert to set up an alert for unacceptable consumer lag. For an example trigger, see Create a consumer group trigger for consumer lag.