Kafka Consumer
Apache Kafka Consumer Management UI
What is a Kafka Consumer?
A Kafka Consumer is an application that is used to fetch streaming messages from one or more Kafka topics. Each fetch retrieves a chunk of messages from a Kafka topic via a broker. Consumer offsets keep track of the point in the stream where the next fetch should begin. A Kafka consumer can reposition an offset forwards in order to skip over messages, or backwards to refetch it.
A Kafka consumer group is a set of consumers which work together to retrieve and process data from one or more topics. Each Kafka consumer in the group is assigned one or more partitions from which it fetches messages.
Kadeck is a free Kafka UI that gives you insights into Kafka Consumers and makes managing them easier.
Kafka Consumer Dashboard
Troubleshooting Kafka consumer groups is an important task. The Kadeck Consumer View dashboard provides a variety of visualizations, metrics, and functions that make it easier to monitor and manage consumers. The Consumers View allows you to see and sort all Consumer Groups in a cluster at once so you can:
Manage Kafka Consumer Performance
Kadeck allows you to quickly identify slow Consumer Groups. You can search Kafka consumers by name, topic, or even by performance filters. Clicking on the name of the consumer group drills down into consumer group details, where you can:
Visualize Kafka Flows
Kadeck allows you to visualize consumers and producers of every topic. The visualizations show you how your consumers and producers interact with each topic and partition so you can optimize and troubleshoot your topic configurations.
Control Kafka Consumer ACLs
Restricting access to consumer groups can be a challenge. The Kadeck ACL wizard makes it easy to view, create, and delete consumer group ACLs.
Manage Kafka Consumer Quotas
Consumers can retrieve very high volumes of data, and generate requests at a very high rate. This can monopolize broker resources, cause network saturation and denial-of-service for other clients and the brokers themselves. Kafka quotas protect against these issues. Kadeck makes it easy to create and manage Kafka consumer quotas:
