eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by AWSMSKConnecTest

This test monitors the broker's connection to the consumer and any abnormal connectivity issues can be proactively detected.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for the target AWS Managed Service Kafka server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
connectionCount Indicates the current number of active connections. Number

A very high value is required for this measure.
connTrackAllowanceExceed Indicates the number of packets shaped because the connection tracking exceeded the maximum for the broker. Number

Connection tracking is related to security groups that track each connection established to ensure that return packets are delivered as expected.
connectionCloseRate Indicates the number of connections closed per second per listener. Number

This number is aggregated per listener and filtered for the client listeners.
connectionCreationRate Indicates the number of new connections established per second per listener. Number

This number is aggregated per listener and filtered for the client listeners.
tcpConnections Indicates the number of incoming and outgoing TCP segments with the SYN flag set. Number

SYN packets are normally generated when a client attempts to start a TCP connection to a server, and the client and server exchange a series of messages. The client requests a connection by sending a SYN (synchronize) message to the server.