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Viewing Kafka Topic Details

On the details page of a topic, view its basic information, partition and producer information, and subscriptions.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Kafka console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
  3. Click the desired instance to go to the instance details page.
  4. In the navigation pane, choose Instance > Topics.
  5. Click a topic name to go to the topic details page.

    On the topic details page, the basic information, partitions, producers, and subscriptions are displayed.

Basic Information of a Topic

Figure 1 Basic information of a topic
Table 1 Basic information of a topic

Parameter

Description

Topic Name

Name of this topic.

Brokers

This topic has been associated with brokers.

Partitions

Number of partitions of this topic.

Created

Time when this topic is created.

CAUTION:

The topic creation time is not displayed on the topic details page in any of the following cases:

  • The topics were created much earlier. See the console.
  • The topics were created automatically, or by commands or code on the client.

Partitions

Figure 2 Partitions
Table 2 Partition information of a topic

Parameter

Description

Partition

Partition No. of this topic.

Minimum Offset

Minimum offset of this partition.

First Updated

Time when the earliest message in this partition is updated.

CAUTION:

First Updated displays -- when all messages in the partition are aged or no message is produced.

Maximum Offset

Maximum offset of this partition.

Last Updated

Time when the last message in this partition is updated.

CAUTION:

Last Updated displays -- when all messages in the partition are aged or no message is produced.

Messages

Number of messages in this partition.

Producers

For topics created much earlier, Producers tab page is not displayed on the topic details page. See the console.

Figure 3 Producers
Table 3 Producer information of a topic

Parameter

Description

Broker Address

Broker address of the Kafka instance connected to the producer.

Producer Address

Address of the producer client.

Producer Connected

Time when the producer is connected to the Kafka instance.

Subscriptions

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

Figure 4 Subscriptions
Table 4 Subscriptions of a topic

Parameter

Description

Consumer Group Name

Name of the consumer group that subscribes to this topic.

Clicking a consumer group name can go to the consumer group details page and view the consumer list and consumption progress.

Status

Current status of a consumer group.

  • DEAD: The consumer group has no member or metadata.
  • EMPTY: The consumer group has metadata but has no member.
  • PREPARING_REBALANCE: The consumer group is to be rebalanced.
  • COMPLETING_REBALANCE: All members have joined the consumer group.
  • STABLE: Members in the consumer group can consume messages normally.

Coordinator(ID)

Broker where the Coordinator component is.

Accumulated Messages

Number of remaining messages that can be consumed in a consumer group.
Parent topic: Managing Topics