Check Consumer State

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Check the consumer state.

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Check Consumer State

Check the consumer state.

Check

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Check Consumer State

Check

Check the consumer state.

Install now

Check Consumer State

Check the consumer state.

Check

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The action "Check Consumer State" within the experiment editor.

Introduction

With this action, Steadybit can check the state of a consumer for a given time.

Use Cases

You can check the state of your consumer during your experiments.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Duration	The duration of the attack.	10s
Expected State List	Required. The state to look after (Dead, Stable, Empty, Unknown, CompletingRebalance, PreparingRebalance)
State Check Mode	How often should the state be expected. "At least once" or "All the time"

Useful Templates

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Simulate Kafka brokers downtime and see how consumers are handling topic lag

An experiment to block access to brokers for consumers while producing records in the topic. The consumers should get back to consume when the kafka brokers are available again and the accumulated lag must be deal with quickly.

Validate consumer's behavior when new leader is elected

Verify that your application handles a change of the leader properly.

Motivation

By testing your system's resilience to Kafka leader changes in a partition, you can identify potential weaknesses and take appropriate measures to improve its performance.

Structure

To conduct this experiment, we will ensure that all Kafka topics and producers are ready and that the consumer receives and processes messages correctly. We will then elect a new leader for one partition in Kafka and expect the system to work fine.

Message Queue

Kafka

Recoverability

Kafka consumers

Kafka topics

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