To add a connection, go to:

Admin->Connections

Select the New Connection button and select Schema Registry.

Enter:

1. Comma-separated list of schema registry URLs including ports

2. Enable basic auth if required and set the user name and password

3. Enable SSL if required and upload the keystore

4. Optionally upload a trust store

5. Set any additional properties

6. Optional enable metrics

Lenses can work with the following schema registry implementations which can be added via the Connections page in Lenses.

Go to Admin->Connections->New Connections->Schema Registry and follow the guide for your registry provider.

Authentication

TLS and basic authentication are supported for connections to Schema Registries.

JMX Metrics

Lenses can collect Schema registry metrics via:

1. JMX

2. Jolokia

Supported formats

• AVRO

• PROTOBUF

To connect your Schema Registry with Lenses, select Schema Registry -> Create Connection.

Schema deletion

To enable the deletion of schemas in the UI, set the following in the lenses.conf file.

## Enable schema deletion in the Lenses UI
## default: false
lenses.schema.registry.delete = true

## When a topic is deleted,
## automatically delete also its associated Schema Registry subjects
## default: false
lenses.schema.registry.cascade.delete = true

Apicuro supports the following versions of Confluent's API:

• Confluent Schema Registry API v6

• Confluent Schema Registry API v7

Set the schema registry URLs to include the compatibility endpoints, for example:

To add a connection, go to:

Admin->Connections

Select the New Connection button and select Schema Registry.

Enter:

1. Comma-separated list of schema registry URLs including ports and compatibility endpoint path

2. Enable basic auth if required and set the user name and password

Lenses provides support for AWS Glue to manage schema and also explore and process data linked to it via the Lenses

To connect to Glue, first create a AWS Connection. Go to Admin->Connections->AWS and enter your AWS credentials or select the IAM support if Lenses is running on an AWS host, e.g. EC2 instance or it has the AWS default credentials toolchain provider in place.

Next, Select New Connection->Schema Registry->AWS Glue. Select your AWS Connection with access to Glue, and enter the Glue ARN.

To configure an application to use this compatibility API, specify the Schema Registry endpoint in the following format:

https://token:{$APIKEY}@{$HOST}/{confluent}

To add a connection, go to:

Admin->Connections

Select the New Connection button and select Schema Registry.

Enter:

1. Comma-separated list of schema registry URLs including ports, adding the confluent path at the end. Use the value from the kafka_http_url field in the IBM Console Service Credentials tab

2. Enable basic auth if required

3. Set the user name "token"

4. Set the password as the value from API key in the IBM Console Service Credentials tab