From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Kafka
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Observing consumers - Kafka Tutorial
From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Kafka
Observing consumers
We are now producing messages to our stock market data topic at a steady rate. Let's head over to "Topics," and here, you can see stock market data, it seems to be healthy. Notice the production in the last five minutes, 675 bytes per second. Let's click through and monitor this topic. Notice that production is now at roughly 675 bytes per second, but there's absolutely no consumption. Well, that makes sense. We do have a datagen connect producer, but no consumer, and that's why consumption is zero. Storage has a value, we have about 354kB stored in the topic. That's because messages are being produced but not consumed. And if you look at the single partition here in this topic, you can see that roughly 2,652 messages have been produced for a total of about 406 kilobytes. We know that the way for you to monitor the production to a particular topic is to look at the production graph. This will allow you to confirm that the producer is indeed producing messages to this topic at a steady…
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