Viewing Kafka Topic Details

On the Kafka console, you can view basic information, partition and producer information, and subscriptions of a topic.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner to select a region.

    Select the region where your Kafka instance is located.

  3. Click Service List and choose Application > Distributed Message Service. The Kafka instance list is displayed.
  4. Click the desired Kafka instance to view its details.
  5. In the navigation pane, choose Topics.
  6. Click a topic to view its details.

    The general information, subscriptions, partitions, and producers are displayed.

    • General information: topic name, brokers, partitions, and creation time
      • For topics created much earlier, creation time is not displayed on the topic details page. See the console.
      • For topics automatically created, and created by commands or code on the client, creation time is not displayed on the topic details page.
    • Subscriptions: consumer group name and status, Coordinator (ID), and accumulated messages

      Click Details in the Operation column or the name of a consumer group.

      If an instance contains more than 10,000 consumer groups, the subscription relationships of topics cannot be queried.

    • Partitions: partition No., minimum offset, maximum offset, number of messages, and message update time
      Figure 1 Partitions
    • Producers: broker address, producer address, and producer connected time
      • The producer information is displayed only when a producer is producing messages into topics.
      • For topics created much earlier, Producer tab page is not displayed on the topic details page. See the console.