How to Consume data?
How Conduktor consumes data
Conduktor always displays data chronologically.
Viewing data inside a topic
From the main topics view, click on the icon next to its name to take a peek at its data:
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Pick “JSON” as your Value deserializer to see the formatted JSON in the details
dialog. If you pick just “string”, it won’t be formatted otherwise.

- copy the payload
- look for its headers
- its metadata (partition, sizes)
- the key/value Avro schema if you’re using the Confluent Schema Registry.
- if you are using the “binary” format, it’s possible to Download into a file
- copy the record to Conduktor’s producer to re-send it when needed (useful when testing)
Multi-topics
It’s possible to consume multiple topics at the same. It’s useful when you’re looking for a specific id across topics managed by different projects, to see “who’s doing what” and retrace the lifecycle of your entity. To do so, on the topics view, select multiple topics and click on “Consume selected Topics”:

Monitoring the progress
When you’re looking for a needle in a large topics, you’d like to know where Conduktor is at, to know how much take will it take. When consuming, it’s possible to display the progress related to all partitions by clicking on the “Show Partitions” button at the bottom. This will open a panel updated in real-time displaying the progress for all partitions (and all topics, if several are consumed at once):.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=HyntmW75y4ZZaukh&q=85&s=91303e368f47a4683d175edc1b4cccc4)
It’s possible to identify if a partition has issues if it’s not moving on or barely (probably that
the leader broker of this partitions is in trouble)