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Cluster overview and management

When you select the cluster you want to monitor or manage on the cluster list screen, an overview screen opens, showing the overall cluster status.

Cluster status summary

Shows the overall status of the cluster.

  • Broker Health. Displays the online/offline number of brokers registered in the cluster.
  • Topic & Partition Health. Displays the online/offline count of total topic partitions created in the cluster.
  • ZooKeeper Connection Health. Number of online ZooKeeper connections.
  • Avg Produce time. Displays average message produce latency information overall and by broker (99% average).
  • Avg Fetchconsumer time. Displays average message consumer latency information overall and by broker (99% average).
  • Avg Fetchfollower time. Displays average message follow delay information overall and by broker (99% average).

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Processing rate

  • Message inflow by broker. Displays history information on the number of messages produced per second.
  • Message inflow by broker (Bytes). Displays historical information on the number of data input bytes for each broker.
  • Message consumption by broker (Bytes). Displays historical information on the number of data output bytes for each broker.

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Cluster modification

Select the Settings menu on the left side of the screen.

Settings has three tabs: General, Extensions, and Client Quotas. Only the General tab is explained here.

Cluster Settings

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Brokers

Add and delete brokers, enable and disable metrics, and modify ports.

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Add brokers

  1. Click Host Add.
  2. Use the Broker server dialog to enter information for the new broker and click Add Worker.

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Edit brokers or modify ports

  1. Select the edit icon EditBt.png next to the broker you want to change.
  2. Update the information and click Edit.

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Duplicate brokers

Create a duplicate of an existing broker by selecting the broker's duplicate button: .

Delete brokers

Select the Delete button DltBt.png next to the broker that you want to remove.

Enable and disable metrics

Use the Metrics Settings list to enable or disable JMX or Node metrics.

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ZooKeeper

Change ZooKeeper authentication, add and delete servers, enable or disable metrics, and modify ports.

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Change ZooKeeper authentication

Use the Auth section to change the optional ZooKeeper authentication information. As noted, ZooKeeper authentication information is required to set access control lists (ACL) for producers and consumers. If Zookeeper authentication is enabled, you must enter the following authentication information for Kafka versions 2.6 and earlier:

Add servers

  1. Click Host Add.
  2. Use the ZooKeeper server dialog to enter information for the new server.
  3. Click Register.

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Edit servers / modify ports

  1. Select the edit icon EditBt.png next to the server you want to change.
  2. Update the information.
  3. Click Edit.

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Duplicate servers

Create a duplicate of an existing server by selecting the server's duplicate button: .

Delete servers

Select the Delete button DltBt.png next to the server that you want to remove.

Enable or disable metrics

Use the Metrics Settings list to enable or disable ZooKeeper or Node metrics.

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Delete cluster

Deleting a cluster does not delete the actual cluster. If there is a registration information error, you can delete (remove) and reregister the cluster.

You can delete a registered cluster by pressing the Remove button at the bottom of the cluster settings screen: .