Connecting to Kafka on the Console

Prerequisites

• Messages can be produced in a topic only when the instance is in the Running state.
• A topic has been created.

Producing Messages on the Console

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 in the upper left corner and choose Middleware > Distributed Message Service (for Kafka) to open the console of DMS for Kafka.
4. Click the desired Kafka instance to view its details.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Topics.
6. Choose More > Creating Messages in the row that contains the desired topic. The Creating Messages dialog box is displayed.
7. Set message parameters by referring to Table 1.

   Table 1 Message parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Message Body	Message content. 0 to 2000 characters.
   Message Key	Message key.
   Specify Partition	Indicates whether to enable the function of sending messages to a specified partition. Off: Messages are sent to partitions based on their key hash. On: Messages are sent to specified partitions. Requires the partition ID.

8. Click OK.

   You can view the sent messages on the Message Query page.