Schema Registries

This page describes connecting Lenses to Schema registries

See provisioning for automating connections.

Consider Rate Limiting if you have a high number of schemas.

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.

AWS Glue

Connect Lenses to your AWS Glue service for schema registry support.

Confluent

Connect Lenses to Confluent Schema Registry.

IBM Event Streams

Connect Lenses to IBM Event Streams Schema Registry

Apicurio

Connect Lenses to Apicurio.

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

JSON and XML formats are supported by Lenses but without a backing schema registry.

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

IBM Event Streams supports hard deletes only