Apache Kafka Consumer layer

Using the tests associated with the Apache Kafka Consumer layer (see Figure 1), you can monitor the following:

• Number of active broker's connections to the consumer and new connections established per second.

• Connections that failed during authentication/re-authentication process.

• Average latency observed due to re-authentication.

• Average number of requests sent to the broker per second.

• Average number of responses received from the broker per second.

• Number of current and end offsets .

• Number of lags between Kafka producers and consumers.

• Percentage of lags between Kafka producers and consumers.

Figure 1 : The list of tests associated with the Apache Kafka Consumer layer