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Lenses, Realtime streaming DataOps at the heart of your Business Operations
Overview
Lenses is a simple, powerful and secure self service DataOps platform. Operate with confidence on Apache Kafka & AWS. Lenses delivers broad access to data with fine-grained controls whilst empowering data gurus with SQL capabilities for data flows.
Highlights
- Data Visibility with SQL
- Data Governance
- Kubernetes ready
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Lenses EC2
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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AmazonLinux 2.0.20200722.0
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Lenses does not currently offer refunds
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Access the application via a browser at http://<public_dns>/:<LENSES_PORT>
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Support
Vendor support
Visit https://www.lenses.io/resources/#support where you can troubleshoot issues and find answers to commonly asked questions. Support packages available for Enterprize subscriptions
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Customer reviews
Kyriakos P.
Lenses for understanding Kafka
Reviewed on Aug 28, 2020
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike. Lenses provides us an inside view of our streaming data in a way we could not do before.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lenses helps us create proof of concepts quickly using the SQL Processors and also we use it as a Kafka training tool for our engineers that haven't used Kafka in the past.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start off with the Docker Box installation to play around and join Slack. Once anyone gets a first feel of the product he/she will be impressed. Easy to use and very insightful.
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Alexandru-Florian A.
DataOps for Kafka
Reviewed on Aug 05, 2020
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lenses is a great tool for opening access to the data stored in Kafka while ensuring a safe level of data access security using the Data Policies and Security Groups.
Michael G.
Invaluable tool for anyone using Kafka
Reviewed on Jul 27, 2020
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
A great way to sample and query data in a GUI. We didn't have a reliable way to do that before.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Lenses, we realized our lo compaction strategy wasn't working. Lenses was a critical tool in finding the cause and fixing it.
Ivan V.
Excellent addition to kafka
Reviewed on Jul 24, 2020
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- 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
- 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
What do you dislike about the product?
- You need to use lenses UI for development of SQL processors: develop, export, import into prod. No developer centric workflow assumed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Troubleshooting production incidents
- Overall visibility of data in kafka for all relevant people (due to role based access control and ability to mask data based on policies)
- Improved monitoring of kafka brokers
- Data integration scenarios can be done in minutes
- Overall visibility of data in kafka for all relevant people (due to role based access control and ability to mask data based on policies)
- Improved monitoring of kafka brokers
- Data integration scenarios can be done in minutes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try lenses box first to see if it suites your needs
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Powerful tool for increased productivity
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2020
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lenses is helping us more quickly iterate on our streaming-related projects. It provides a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use interface that helps our developers troubleshoot Kafka-related issues. Additionally, it has been invaluable in helping us design our partitioning strategies, as well as capacity plan. Furthermore, it provides us with the means to easily query billions of IoT messages to troubleshoot devices in the field.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Download the Lenses Box and run it locally to see all the features in action.