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Lenses | 5.1.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2.0.20200904.0 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Lenses for understanding Kafka
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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DataOps for Kafka
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.
Invaluable tool for anyone using Kafka
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.
Excellent addition to kafka
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
Powerful tool for increased productivity
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.
Amazing Product with Amazing Support from and Amazing Company
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Setting up kafka pipelines and transformations. Our development time has been improved drastically having the lenses UI. The tool also helps us maintain our kafka data, governance and security models as well. The tool is really becoming the center focus of our data ops team.
A very respectable add-on for the enterprise-grade Kafka cluster!
What do you like best about the product?
The view into the data in our Kafka topics, the ability to "scan through" the records in a topic and query it for troubleshooting.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using Lenses to enable our developers to effectively adopt and work with Kafka. The security features and data protection policies paves the way for a wide user base. Finally, the people behind Lenses (Landoop) are great to work with!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the Lenses Box docker image locally. This image can also works as a general and lightweight Kafka development environment.
lenses, a kafka story
What do you like best about the product?
I like the custom serde ability and lenses sql.
What do you dislike about the product?
buggy with configs, bugs in LSQL, VERY weird bash script for docker image env vars.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
finding problematic events
finding partition skew
consumer group lag detection
finding partition skew
consumer group lag detection
Very complete tool to browse and understand what's happening inside your clusters
What do you like best about the product?
Topologies, UX and how easy is to use #awesome
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of features regarding protobuf #proto
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving problems regarding traceability
Lenses is one of those tools that when you get accustomed to you really can't live without.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to quickly filter the messages inside the Kafka topics by SQL.
P.S: the autocompletion suggestions are invaluable.
P.S: the autocompletion suggestions are invaluable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that the SQL view to filter the topics messages only works with websockets enabled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I solve a tons of problems with Lenses! Introspection all around!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Lenses is a great product made by great people.
The Lenses team is incredibly skilled and always ready to help in case of any kind of issue.
The Lenses team is incredibly skilled and always ready to help in case of any kind of issue.
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