AWS MSK Network Test

This test monitors the critical metrics relating to the network connectivity of the target AWS Managed Service Kafka.

Target of the test : AWS Managed Service Kafka

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each cluster executing in the target AWS Managed Service Kafka server.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The IP address of the AWS Managed Service Kafka Broker that is being monitored.
Port	Specify the port number at which the specified HOST listens. By default, this is NULL.
AWS Default Region	This test uses AWS CLI to interact with AWS Managed Service Kafka and pull relevant metrics. To enable the test to connect to AWS, you need to configure the test with the name of the region to which all requests for metrics should be routed, by default. Specify the name of this AWS Default Region, here.
AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Access Key and Confirm Password	To monitor AWS Managed Service Kafka, the eG agent has to be configured with the access key and secret key of a user with a valid AWS account. For this purpose, we recommend that you create a special user on the AWS cloud, obtain the access and secret keys of this user, and configure this test with these keys. The procedure for this has been detailed in the Obtaining an Access key and Secret key topic. Make sure you reconfirm the access and secret keys you provide here by retyping it in the corresponding Confirm Password text box.
Timeout Seconds	Specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default is 10 seconds.

Measurements made by the test
Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Network dropped receive packages	Indicates the number of dropped receive packages.	Number
Network receive errors for broker	Indicates the number of network receive errors for the broker.	Number	Ideally, this value should be minimum or 0.
Network packets received by broker	Indicates the number of packets received by the broker.	Number
Network dropped transmit packages	Indicates the number of dropped transmit packages.	Number
Network transmit errors for broker	Indicates the number of network transmit errors for the broker.	Number	Ideally, this value should be minimum or 0.
Network packets transmitted by broker	Indicates the number of packets transmitted by the broker.	Number
Packets dropped due to exceeding network allocations	Indicates the number of packets dropped due to exceeding network allocations	Number
Traffic Bytes	Indicates the size of the network traffic between clients (producers and consumers) and brokers.	MB
Average network processors idle percentage	Indicates the average percentage of the time the network processors are idle.	Percent