AWS MSK Produce Test

A Kafka Producer publishes or writes data to the topics within different partitions. Producers automatically know that, what data should be written to which partition and broker. The user does not require to specify the broker and the partition.

This test reports the mean time of the request from the producer to the broker that waits in the queue and the mean time of the response from the broker to the producer that waits in the queue. Using this test, administrators can proactively figure out if the mean time for both the request and response queues takes too long to process.

Target of the test : AWS Managed Service Kafka

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for 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

Produce local time

Indicates the mean time for the follower to send a response.

Seconds

 

Produce message conversions time

Indicates the mean time spent on message format conversions.

Seconds

 

Produce request queue time

Indicates the mean time that request messages spend in the queue.

Seconds

 

Produce response queue time

Indicates the mean time that response messages spend in the queue.

Seconds

 

Produce response send time

Indicates the mean time spent on sending response messages.

Seconds

 

Produce total time

Indicates the mean produce time.

Seconds