Once the extractor and applier have been installed, services can be monitored using the trepctl command.

For example, to monitor the extractor status:

shell> trepctl status
appliedLastEventId     : mysql-bin.000009:0000000000002298;2340
appliedLastSeqno       : 10
appliedLatency         : 0.788
autoRecoveryEnabled    : false
autoRecoveryTotal      : 0
channels               : 1
clusterName            : alpha
currentEventId         : mysql-bin.000009:0000000000002298
currentTimeMillis      : 1498687871560
dataServerHost         : mysqlhost
extensions             :
host                   : mysqlhost
latestEpochNumber      : 0
masterConnectUri       : thl://localhost:/
masterListenUri        : thl://mysqlhost:2112/
maximumStoredSeqNo     : 10
minimumStoredSeqNo     : 0
offlineRequests        : NONE
pendingError           : NONE
pendingErrorCode       : NONE
pendingErrorEventId    : NONE
pendingErrorSeqno      : -1
pendingExceptionMessage: NONE
pipelineSource         : /var/lib/mysql
relativeLatency        : 99185.56
resourcePrecedence     : 99
rmiPort                : 10000
role                   : master
seqnoType              : java.lang.Long
serviceName            : east
serviceType            : local
simpleServiceName      : east
siteName               : default
sourceId               : mysqlhost
state                  : ONLINE
timeInStateSeconds     : 101347.786
timezone               : GMT
transitioningTo        :
uptimeSeconds          : 101358.88
useSSLConnection       : false
version                : Tungsten Replicator 7.1.4 build 10
Finished status command...

The replicator service operates just the same as a standard extractor service of a typical MySQL replication service.

The Kafka applier service can be accessed either remotely from the extractor:

shell> trepctl -host kafka status
...

Or locally on the Kafka host:

shell> trepctl status
Processing status command...
NAME                     VALUE
----                     -----
appliedLastEventId     : mysql-bin.000008:0000000000412301;0
appliedLastSeqno       : 1296
appliedLatency         : 10.253
channels               : 1
clusterName            : alpha
currentEventId         : NONE
currentTimeMillis      : 1377098139212
dataServerHost         : kafka
extensions             :
latestEpochNumber      : 1286
masterConnectUri       : thl://host1:2112/
masterListenUri        : null
maximumStoredSeqNo     : 1296
minimumStoredSeqNo     : 0
offlineRequests        : NONE
pendingError           : NONE
pendingErrorCode       : NONE
pendingErrorEventId    : NONE
pendingErrorSeqno      : -1
pendingExceptionMessage: NONE
pipelineSource         : thl://mysqlhost:2112/
relativeLatency        : 771.212
resourcePrecedence     : 99
rmiPort                : 10000
role                   : slave
seqnoType              : java.lang.Long
serviceName            : alpha
serviceType            : local
simpleServiceName      : alpha
siteName               : default
sourceId               : kafka
state                  : ONLINE
timeInStateSeconds     : 177783.343
transitioningTo        :
uptimeSeconds          : 180631.276
useSSLConnection       : false
version                : Tungsten Replicator 7.1.4 build 10
Finished status command...

Monitoring the status of replication between the source and target is also the same. The appliedLastSeqno still indicates the sequence number that has been applied to Kafka, and the event ID from Kafka can still be identified from appliedLastEventId.

Sequence numbers between the two hosts should match, as in a source/target deployment, but due to the method used to replicate, the applied latency may be higher.

To check for information within Kafka, use a tool or the kafka-console-consumer.sh command-line client:

shell> kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic test_msg --zookeeper localhost:2181

The output should be checked to ensure that information is being correctly replicated. If strings are shown as a hex value, for example:

"title" : "[B@7084a5c"

It probably indicates that UTF8 and/or --mysql-use-bytes-for-string=false options were not used during installation. If you are reading from a cluster this is expected behavior, and you should enable the convertstringfrommysql filter as shown in the installation examples. In pure replicator scenarios, ensure that the --mysql-use-bytes-for-string=false setting is enabled, or that you are using --enable-heterogeneous-service.