Querying Kafka topics

The CLI allows you to browse and subscribe to topic data with SQL. You can use flags to control the output of the data; the flags are listed in the table below.

Browsing 

Browse data via the query command, optionally validate and output stats:

lenses-cli query \
    --keys \
    --meta "SELECT * FROM topic LIMIT 50"

Execute with stats and show offsets 

lenses-cli query \
    --stats "SELECT * FROM topic LIMIT 50"

Live 

Live continuous queries update according to the query and never stop until terminated:

lenses-cli \
    query \
    --live-stream "SELECT * FROM topic WHERE payment_type = 2 AND passenger_count > 1"

Interactive shell 

The interactive shell allows you to have an interactive experience and issue Lenses SQL queries from the command line.

To start the interactive shell, issue the following command:

lenses-cli shell

The available options are the following:

Multiline queries are possible but not available in the history inside the shell. After a restart, the multiline queries are concatenated into one line and can be selected.

Query history is stored in .lenes/history in the home directory of the user.

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Use "!" to set output options [!keys|!keysOnly|!stats|!meta|!pretty]
Crtl+D to exit

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