Kafka Topic

Kafka topics are categories used to organize events. You must add Kafka exporters to your deployment to view this entity. See Configure Kafka.

Cisco Cloud Observability displays Apache Kafka entities on the Observe page. Metrics display for specific entity instances in the list and detail views.

Detail View

To display the detail view for a Kafka topic:

Navigate to the Observe page.
Under Infrastructure, click Kafka Clusters.
The Kafka Clusters list view now displays.
In the Relationships map in the left panel, click Topics.
The Topics list view now displays.
Click a Topic Name to display the detail view for the selected instance.
The detail view displays metrics, key performance indicators, and properties (attributes) related to the instance you selected.

Metrics and Key Performance Indicators

Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for Kafka topics.

Display Name	Description
Under Replicated Partitions (Count)	The number of under-replicated partitions related to the scoped topic.
Topic Partition Count	The number of topic partitions.

Properties (Attributes)

Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following properties for Kafka topics.

Display Name	Description
Kafka Topic Name	The Kafka topic name.
Kafka Cluster Name	The Kafka cluster name.
Kubernetes Cluster Name	The Kubernetes cluster name.
Kubernetes Namespace	The Kubernetes namespace name.

Retention and Purge Time-To-Live (TTL)

For all cloud and infrastructure entities, the retention TTL is 180 minutes (3 hours) and the purge TTL is 525,600 minutes (365 days).

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