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The ability to quickly filter the messages inside the Kafka topics by SQL.
P.S: the autocompletion suggestions are invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The fact that the SQL view to filter the topics messages only works with websockets enabled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Lenses is amazing at providing insights into the Kafka topics as well as offering a broad range of tools for administering Kafka data policies, ACLs, SQL Processors, Kafka Connectors. I appreciate how easy it is to explore data using the SQL Studio tool. Also the continuous monitoring and audit capabilities are providing good value and instant feedback about the state of the Kafka cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It would be nice to have a richer set of capabilities for supporting DataOps, such as the possibility of exporting and importing Data Policies, security configurations and ACLs in order to configure multiple instances of Lenses deployed in different environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support on their product! They are unparalleled and quick to respond to any question (even if the fault is not their own). Their team is always friendly and willing to help. It is a pleasure to work with them. Please never change! The slack community is a HUGE benefit for us users. The Lenses product is amazing and I am positive it has drastically increased our development times using Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lack of KStream functions that work in the KSQL Studio, but not the KStreams option. I would LOVE to build custom functions for KStreams, but I hear that is coming sooner than later! Also wish the product had a few more stream reactor connectors and configs for the connectors. Would also love a "data type" converter inside of the UI to convert between string, Avro, JSon ,etc. formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Beautiful, responsive UI for kafka overview and with lenses SQL for kafka topics browsing
- Advanced kafka broker metrics which simplify monitoring and alerting
- Seamless data integration capabilities using lenses SQL processors
- Data protection policies and role based UI
- Schema registry integration for avro based payloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- You need to use lenses UI for development of SQL processors: develop, export, import into prod. No developer centric workflow assumed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lenses provides a quick inside view of all you data flow.
It has helped our junior team coming from an SQL background to understand Kafka and its streaming nature much faster flattening the learning curve.
Personally, I love the support. Especially through slack the response is very quick and hands on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is not much to dislike. Lenses provides us an inside view of our streaming data in a way we could not do before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lenses is an intuitive tool that provides great observability and management features for our streaming environment. It has some very useful interfaces for managing and querying Kafka topics. Lenses has proven to increase productivity in our environment by enabling developers to more quickly ascertain state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In the current release (3.2.1), some types of Kafka consumers (e.g. Apache Flink) appear as "inactive" even though they are active. This is not a "showstopper", but it could be confusing to some users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The view into the data in our Kafka topics, the ability to "scan through" the records in a topic and query it for troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's no free/open version (but there is a trial version and local developer version). This makes the adoption curve a bit steep for small-scale deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A great way to sample and query data in a GUI. We didn't have a reliable way to do that before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Producing messages within Lenses seems to require that messages already exist on the topic, and if you use Avro, it will only use one schema for that topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
