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Kafka monitoring

Last modified: 10 August 2022

The Big Data Tools plugin lets you monitor your Kafka event streaming processes.

Typical workflow:

  1. Establish connection to a Kafka server

  2. Adjust the preview layout

  3. Filter out stream parameters

At any time, you can open the connection settings in one of the following ways:

  • Go to the Tools | Big Data Tools Settings page of the IDE settings Ctrl+Alt+S.

  • Click settings on the Kafka connection tool window toolbar.

Once you have established a connection to the Kafka server, the Kafka connection tool window appears.

Kafka connection: topics

The window consists of the several areas to monitor data for:

  • Topics: Categories divided on partitions to which Kafka records are stored.

  • Consumers: A view of all consumer groups for all topics in a cluster.

Once you have set up the layout of the monitoring window, opened or closed some preview areas, you can filter the monitoring data to preview particular job parameters.

At any time, you can click Refresh on the Kafka connection tool window to manually refresh the monitoring data. Alternatively, you can configure the automatic update within a certain time interval in the list located next to the Refresh button. You can select 5, 10, or 30 seconds.