Viewing Kafka Messages

Notes and Constraints

• If a topic contains a large amount of data, an internal service error may be reported when you query messages in a topic with only one replica. You can shorten the time range for query based on the data volume.
• To query with content, due to resource and performance restrictions, a total of 200 MB and 10,000 messages can be queried, and a maximum of 10 messages can be returned.
• The console displays messages smaller than 4 KB. To view messages larger than 4 KB, click Download Message.

Procedure

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
3. Click Application > Distributed Message Service (for Kafka) to open the Kafka overview page.
4. In the navigation pane, choose Kafka Instances.
5. Click the desired instance to go to the instance details page.
6. In the left navigation pane, choose Message Query.
7. Messages can be queried by creation time or offset. For details, see Table 1 and Table 2.

   Table 1 Querying messages by creation time

   Parameter	Description
   Topic Name	Name of the topic to be queried.
   Partition	Partition where the message is located. If no partition is specified, messages in all partitions of the topic are displayed in the query result.
   Content	Enter a keyword in the message body. Due to resource and performance restrictions, query with content is limited to 10 results. Each search covers at most 10,000 records, or 200 MB. For large records (> 20 KB per message) or a long period, dump messages for offline query.
   Created	WARNING: If a topic contains a large amount of data, an internal service error may be reported when you query messages in a topic with only one replica. You can shorten the time range for query based on the data volume. A time range to be queried.

   Table 2 Querying messages by offset

   Parameter	Description
   Topic Name	Name of the topic to be queried.
   Partition	Partition where the message is located.
   Offset	Offset of the message.

8. Click Search to query messages.

   The query result is as follows.

   Figure 1 Querying topic messages
   

   Parameter description:

   • Topic Name: name of the topic where the message is located
   • Partition: partition where the message is located
   • Offset: position of the message in the partition
   • Message Size (Byte) size of the message
   • Created: time when the message is created. The message creation time is specified by CreateTime when a producer creates messages. If this parameter is not set during message creation, the message creation time is year 1970 by default.

9. Click View Message Body. In the displayed View Message Body dialog box, view the message content, including the topic name, partition, offset, creation time, and message body.

   The console displays messages smaller than 4 KB. To view messages larger than 4 KB, click Download Message.

10. (Optional) To restore the default settings, click Reset.