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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Sensor
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 23, 2022

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only.

To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK operations:

- topics list of a cluster with topics name, partitions and all topic settings

- show number of existing messages for each topic

- consumer groups and the lag amount for each topic

- the following metrics for each topic, e.g. MessagesInPerSec, BytesInPerSec and BytesOutPerSec

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Apr 17, 2023

    please also note a similar idea was ALSO submitted in March 2023 ;

    https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-1293