Lenses monitors your topics and provide visuals to help you ensure health status on data production/consumption and data distribution.
Lenses continuously monitors all Kafka events produced in a Kafka cluster. It uses the native Kafka client to calculate in real-time metrics around events produced in a Kafka topic per time window.
The above highlights the messages produced on the Kafka topic over the period of the last 30 days. The minimum, average and maximum number of events produced per day are visualised in a way that enables you to easily identify the real behavior of your producers.
The metrics are stored in Lenses for 30 days.
You can add Alerts on data produced metrics to ensure your SLAs.
Adding a new Data SLA requires setting up a threshold, a time window and also who (which channel) to notify when the alert is triggered.
JMX On the bottom of the metrics page, a data table is available. This provides a summary of key topic metrics across your cluster sourced by JMX if enabled.
Lenses adds observability and health monitoring of Kafka partitions. The visual map displays the number of messages that are currently stored per topic-partition. Using this map, you can quickly identify if a partition has been over-utilized and requires to rearrange the partitioning strategy.
The technical information of the partitions is also available, including the replication status. Partition information include:
For each topic you can view its consumers. The lag is visualized in a bar, by showing the minimum and maximum consumer lag for each partition. Drill down to the consumer details to see each partition.
For each consumer group you can add Alerts for the lag threshold. If you want to monitor all your cluster consumers navigate to Consumers.
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