Viewing Kafka Consumer Information

Notes and Constraints

Due to cache reasons, the consumer connection addresses displayed on Kafka Manager may have expired. In this case, restart Kafka Manager.

Prerequisites

The consumer list and connection address can be viewed only when consumers in a consumer group are connected to the Kafka instance (that is, the consumer group is in the STABLE state).

Viewing the Consumer List (Console)

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Application > Distributed Message Service for Kafka to open the Kafka instance list.
4. Click the desired instance to go to the instance details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Instance > Consumer Groups.
6. Click the name of the desired consumer group.
7. On the Consumers tab page, view the consumer list.

   In the consumer list, you can view the consumer ID, consumer address, and client ID.

8. (Optional) To query a specific consumer, enter the consumer ID in the search box and press Enter.

Viewing the Consumer List (Kafka CLI)

• For a Kafka instance with ciphertext access disabled, run the following command in the /bin directory of the Kafka client:

  ./kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server {connection-address} --group {group-name} --members --describe

  Table 1 Consumer list query parameters

  Parameter	Description
  connection-address	Connection address of a Kafka instance. To obtain the address, choose Overview > Connection.
  group-name	Consumer group name.

  Example:

  [root@ecs-kafka bin]# ./kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server 192.168.xx.xx:9092,192.168.xx.xx:9092,192.168.xx.xx:9092 --group test --members --describe
  
  GROUP           CONSUMER-ID                                           HOST            CLIENT-ID        #PARTITIONS     
  test            console-consumer-571a64fe-b0c4-47ce-833d-9e0da5a88d14 /192.168.0.215  console-consumer 3               
  [root@ecs-kafka bin]#

• For a Kafka instance with ciphertext access enabled, do as follows:
  1. (Optional) If the username and password, and the SSL certificate has been configured, skip this step and go to 2. Otherwise, do as follows:

     Create the ssl-user-config.properties file in the /config directory of the Kafka client. Add the username and password, and the SSL certificate configuration by referring to 3.

  2. Run the following command in the /bin directory of the Kafka client:

     ./kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server {connection-address} --group {group-name} --members --describe --command-config ../config/{ssl-user-config.properties} 

     Table 2 Consumer list query parameters

     Parameter	Description
     connection-address	Connection address of a Kafka instance. To obtain the address, choose Overview > Connection.
     group-name	Consumer group name.
     ssl-user-config.properties	Configuration file name. This file contains username, password, and SSL certificate information.

     Example:

     [root@ecs-kafka bin]# ./kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server 192.168.xx.xx:9093,192.168.xx.xx:9093,192.168.xx.xx:9093 --group test --members --describe --command-config ../config/ssl-user-config.properties
     
     GROUP           CONSUMER-ID                                           HOST            CLIENT-ID        #PARTITIONS     
     test            console-consumer-566d0c82-07d3-4d87-9a6e-f57a9bc9fc69 /192.168.0.215  console-consumer 3               
     [root@ecs-kafka bin]#

Viewing Consumer Connection Addresses (Console)

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Application > Distributed Message Service for Kafka to open the Kafka instance list.
4. Click the desired instance to go to the instance details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Instance > Consumer Groups.
6. Click the desired consumer group.
7. On the Consumers tab page, view the consumer addresses.
   Figure 1 Consumer list
   

Viewing Consumer Connection Addresses (Kafka Manager)

1. Log in to Kafka Manager.
2. Click kafka_cluster to go to the cluster details page.
3. On the top menu bar, choose Consumers.
   Figure 2 Navigation bar
   

4. Click the desired consumer group to view the topics that the group has subscribed to.
   Figure 3 Consumer group list
   

5. Click the desired topic to go to the topic details page.
   Figure 4 Topics that the consumer group has subscribed to
   

6. In the Consumer Instance Owner column, view the consumer connection address.
   Figure 5 Topic details page