Kafka Proxy Benchmark

Available in Zilla Plus

Measure the performance of Zilla Plus proxying Kafka Cluster using the OpenMessaging Benchmark on AWS EC2.

This benchmark can help understand the performance impact of introducing Zilla Plus into the data path using metrics like Publish & End to End latencies.

OpenMessaging Benchmark

The Linux Foundation’s OpenMessaging Benchmark (OMB) is an open-source, cloud-based benchmark framework that make it easy to benchmark distributed messaging systems.

Aklivity provides a fork of OMB on Github to run these benchmarks.

Workloads

An OMB workload defines the configuration for a benchmark test, including producers, consumers, topics, message configurations.

For this benchmarking, we use Confluent-style workloads across the following deployment scenarios:

• Zilla Plus + Apache Kafka
• Zilla Plus + Confluent Cloud
• Apache Kafka
• Confluent Cloud

Run Benchmark

Clone the Aklivity OpenMessaging Benchmark (OMB) repository:

git clone https://github.com/aklivity/openmessaging-benchmark.git

Follow the instructions in README to set up and run benchmarks.

Results

After a run completes, the benchmark generates results as output.txt in results/ directory.

To generate charts from your results/ directory, you can use create_charts.py script.

python3 ./bin/create_charts.py results/<your-result-folder>/output.txt

This script will create publish & end to end latency charts that help you analyze performance across different scenarios.