Kines

Friendly Command Line Interface for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Install

• pip install kines

Setup

• aws configure

Commands

List all Kinesis Stream

• kines ls

This command lists streams with their open shard count, enhanced consumers count, retention period and encryption type. Internally this command calls list-streams and describe_stream_summary methods of Boto3 Kinesis client.

List Kinesis Stream Shards

• kines lss <stream-name>

This command will show you open as well as closed shards of a Kinesis stream.

• For detailed output Run kines lss <stream-name> -d

Find shard for partition key

• kines find prod-clickstream -p 123455 -p 8900

From Kinesis Docs

A partition key is used to group data by shard within a stream. Kinesis Data Streams segregates the data records belonging to a stream into multiple shards. It uses the partition key that is associated with each data record to determine which shard a given data record belongs to. Partition keys are Unicode strings with a maximum length limit of 256 bytes. An MD5 hash function is used to map partition keys to 128-bit integer values and to map associated data records to shards. When an application puts data into a stream, it must specify a partition key.

This command comes handy when you want to determine shard for a partition key. This Command can accept multiple partition keys.

Walk through kinesis records

• kines walk <stream-name> <shard-id> -s <sequence-number> -n <number-of-records-per-call>

You can use this command to debug kinesis records. This command internally creates a Shard Iterator. If you don't specify sequence-number then a ShardIterator is created with type TRIM_HORIZON, which allows you to fetch from oldest Kinesis records in shard. When you specify sequence-number a ShardIterator is created with AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER type, which fetches data from the specified sequence number. The Kinesis record's data is decoded using base64 decoder. You can press ⏎ to fetch more records or type n to abort.

• Use -t option to get records from 1 hour 10 minutes ago. Example: kines walk click-stream 000000000000 -t '1h10m'

• Use -l option to start from latest records. Example: kines walk click-stream 000000000000 -l

• Use -f option to poll records repeatedly. Example: kines walk click-stream 000000000000 -l -f

Get report for Kinesis Stream

The report command gives you statistics about your Kinesis Stream. Internally, this command calls get_metric_data of Boto3 Cloudwatch client.

Please take a look at legends command for shortforms used in this report.

View all short forms and legends

• kines legends

How to build in Dev?

• pip install --editable .

How to publish to pypi?

• python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
• twine upload --skip-existing dist/*