topic Re: Confluent Kafka Extension Dashboard in Open Q&A

Confluent Kafka Extension Dashboard

KVZ — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:15:10 GMT

I have added the confluent kafka extension in my environment and a dashboard was automatically created as expected.

However the dashboard uses Confluent Kafka Topic and confluent_kafka_consumergroup metrcis which are a combination of the cluster and topic/consumer group.

For example: Kafka Consumer Group - prod-cluster - consumer group name

I managed to alter the topic Confluent Kafka Topic tile in the board to show only the topic name as it is a metric which exists in the options, however consumer group alone is not an available metric, so I am left with a long and unreadable metric. Is there some way to rename it?

I want to remove the entire prefix that is seen here - "Kafka Consumer Group - prod-cluster"

Re: Confluent Kafka Extension Dashboard

bradley_danyo — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:45:12 GMT

Hello,

There isn't a way to rename any built in Dynatrace metrics.

Thank you

Re: Confluent Kafka Extension Dashboard

Jennny_hz — Thu, 23 May 2024 01:00:59 GMT

@KVZ

After the new updates, it is possible to remove and customize the names of all entities created by the extensions.

You can do it:

1 - In Settings ---> Topology model ---> Generic types / Generic Relationships.

1 - Or in the extension settings in the hub it shows you the created entities

2 - After finding the entity you want, simply remove/add the property you want, for example in my case the topics were named Kafka Topic Name on Cluster ID

I just removed the in {Cluster} in the Instance name pattern field and I was successful

Hope this helps.