Litmus Edge Manager Kafka Broker monitoring with Lenses

overview how to prepare litmus edge manager for kafka client connection this section will provide instructions on how to prepare a litmus edge manager to accept a connection using kafka over plain tcp requirements a litmus edge manager is setup guide to prepare litmus edge manager for client connection the guide on how to prepare litmus edge manager to accept client connections over kafka can be viewed in the litmus edge manager kafka documentation how to connect lenses to litmus edge manager kafka broker over plain tcp this section will provide instructions on how to connect lenses to litmus edge manager kafka broker over plain tcp requirements a deployment of lenses is available how to deploy lenses is covered by the lenses io documentation step by step guide to connect lenses io to litmus edge manager kafka broker this guide will provide instructions on how to connect lenses io with your litmus edge manager kafka broker over plain tcp note this guide will not cover all options like using the lenses cli important this guide will cover connecting to a kafka broker on a new lenses io deployment this guide will not provide instructions on how to manage a lenses io or actions not related to connecting lenses with litmus edge manager step 1 start to add your litmus edge manager kafka broker to connect example new lenses deployment step 2 copy your litmus edge manager kafka broker bootstrap server step 3 paste the server into the lenses bootstrap server box step 4 select the sasl plaintext option for the security protocol step 5 select the plain option for the sasl mechanism step 5 enter the kafka user which was previously created on litmus edge manager as the username in the jaas configuration kafka user list on litmus edge manager step 6 enter the password for the kafka user which was previously created on litmus edge manager as the password in the jaas configuration note this configuration will be hidden by lenses once the configuration is saved step 7 press the test kafka brokers button note if all entries are correct, the connection is successfully validated step 8 press the next button step 9 disable broker metrics and press the next button note currently litmus edge manager doesn't publish broker metrics via jmx step 10 enter and validate your license and press the next button step 11 press the save & boot lenses button step 12 wait to be redirected note you will be redirected to the dashboard monitor litmus edge manager broker performance through explore can the user monitor the performance of all the kafka topics published by litmus edge manager such as records/sec or number of records