# Metrics for uncompressed bytes

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**Created:** [21 February 2023 15:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/metrics-for-uncompressed-bytes/7277 "2023-02-21T15:18:12Z")\
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For producer and consumer metrics, I believe that volume metrics will be reporting the compressed sizes, if the associated data is compressed. I’m referring to the jmx metrics documented [here](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/monitoring.html#monitoring-ak-with-jmx), for example, the mbeans below:

-kafka.producer:client-id={client-id},topic={topic},type=producer-topic-metrics → `byte-total`  
-kafka.consumer:client-id={client-id},topic={topic},type=consumer-fetch-manager-metrics-\> `bytes-consumed-total`

Is it possible to report on or access metrics for the data before/after it is compressed if applicable?