# How to get per topic performance metrics

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-get-per-topic-performance-metrics/7676>\
**Category:** Confluent Cloud\
**Created:** [21 April 2023 19:03 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-get-per-topic-performance-metrics/7676 "2023-04-21T19:03:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![khuddle1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@khuddle1](https://forum.confluent.io/u/khuddle1)\
**Post date:** [21 April 2023 19:03 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/how-to-get-per-topic-performance-metrics/7676/1 "2023-04-21T19:03:04Z")

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I am looking at an Enterprise confluent cloud system where data is being sent over 50+ topics, representing data from 500+ customers. To improve observability into the platform and incident response, I would like to be able to query the following data via an API endpoint.

- Performance metrics per topic

I would like to be able to see how much data is being processed per minute/hour/etc by a specific topic. This information is available in the UI, but is it queriable? Is there a way to get this information from the ‘metric’ API for confluent?

- Number of items processed per customer, per minute

A little more detailed. In the UI, I can temporarily view messages as they are streaming. In our event stream, we provide a customer ID that I would like to be able to power analytics with. For example, to identify how many requests are being processed for a given customer on a given topic over time. Looking at the documentation, that appears to be the use case for kSQL? Is that possible with kSQL, or am I misinterpreting? Is there another way to achieve this?