# How to get Average Message Size Info

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**Created:** [24 April 2021 13:16 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-get-average-message-size-info/1576 "2021-04-24T13:16:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 April 2021 13:16 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-get-average-message-size-info/1576/1 "2021-04-24T13:16:30Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I have been working on setting observability on Apache Kafka using prometheus and JMX-Exporter.  
I have been able to setup the above, i had a question

Q: Which metric represents the Average Message Size in Kafka?

Thanks in Advance!