Monitoring message consumption

You can monitor the progress of your data streaming from Kafka several ways:

• Monitoring the consumer groups to which Vertica reports its progress. This technique is best if the tools you want to use to monitor your data load work with Kafka.

• Use the monitoring APIs built into the vkconfig tool. These APIs report the configuration and consumption of your streaming scheduler in JSON format. These APIs are useful if you are developing your own monitoring scripts, or your monitoring tools can consume status information in JSON format.