A UI console to check the depth of ibm message hub

Question

I have connected a producer to IBM Message Hub in Bluemix. How could I get a view of topic and its depth in message hub. Is there a web console where i can see messages count?

Thanks Raj

Answer 1

There isn't really the concept of a topic depth in Kafka, as Kafka is a commit log. You're not reading messages off a queue, you're reading messages from a point in the log, you can specify where in the log you start, and reading a message doesn't remove it from the log. So, the number of messages available is not affected by a read operation, but an individual consumer's place on the log moves.

Partitions per topic can be found from the Message Hub UI that lists the topics names, as well as the retention policy for the topic.

Input/Output rates for each topic are available in the Grafana tool.