Kafka Activity Log

The Kafka Activity Log provides a high-level overview of how IBM® App Connect Enterprise interacts with Apache Kafka servers by using the KafkaProducer and KafkaConsumer nodes.

Activity Log content

When a KafkaProducer node publishes a message, or a KafkaConsumer node receives a message, or a KafkaRead node reads a message, information is written to the activity log.

Activity Log messages for the KafkaProducer node contain the following information:
  • Topic name
  • Partition name
  • Offset
  • Client ID
Activity Log messages for the KafkaConsumer node contain the following information:
  • Topic name
  • Partition name
  • Offset
  • Client ID
  • Group ID
Activity Log messages for the KafkaRead node contain the following information:
  • Topic name
  • Partition name
  • Offset
  • Client ID

This information enables you to review the interactions between your message flows and the Kafka servers.