How to monitor the process of reading topics in Managed Service for Apache Kafka®

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Updated at December 17, 2025

Case description

You need to monitor the process of reading topics in Managed Service for Apache Kafka®.

To monitor how the topics are read, use one of the options below:

View the chart of the kafka_group_topic_partition_lag metric in Yandex Monitoring.

Use the kafka-consumer-groups command line tool that comes with the Kafka distribution file.

Command example:

kafka-consumer-groups.sh --command-config connect --bootstrap-server <hostname>:9091 --group <group_name> --describe

Connect the external UI for the cluster to monitor the consumer group metrics. The possible options include Kafka UI or AKHQ. For more info on how to deploy Kafka UI on your own, see this tutorial.