Producer
- Navigate to MQ monitoring on the left pane in the Observability portal.
- Select Kafka from the Message queue drop-down list.
- Click Producer to view the producer related details similar to the following screen.
By default, the **Broker** tab under that is selected and the following widgets are available for you to comprehend metrics in a graph format.
The Broker tab contains the following widgets which lets you comprehend the metrics in a graph format.
| Widget name | Description |
|---|---|
| Incoming bytes | Total amount of data (in bytes) that is received by a Kafka broker from producers or other brokers within the Kafka cluster. |
| Outgoing bytes | Total amount of data bytes that is sent out by a Kafka broker to consumers, other brokers, or external systems. |
| Request size | Size of requests received by the broker from producers, consumers, or other brokers. |
| Response rate | Rate at which the broker sends responses to requests from producers, consumers, or other brokers. |
- Click the Topic tab. It contains the following widgets which lets you comprehend the metrics in a graph format.
| Widget name | Description |
|---|---|
| Record send rate | Rate at which records (messages) are sent to a specific topic. |
| Record send total | Total number of records (messages) sent to a specific topic by producers. |
| Record error rate | Rate at which errors occur when producers attempt to send records (messages) to Kafka topics. |
| Record error total | Total errors encountered by a producer when attempting to send records (messages) to Kafka topics. |