Registering External Apps in Lenses

Understand how to register an external app in Lenses via the UI

Register

Select the Apps option from the left sidebar, either open the listing for External Apps and click Create External App, or click create from the node in the tree panel.

1

Add metadata

Give the app a name, descripton, tags, ower, version, type and deployment

2

Add the runners

Add the endpoints where Lenses can check the health.

Give the connector a name, select the environment and then the Kafka Connect Cluster. Once done the editor will be active and trigger auto-completion for the available Connectors.

Select the Connector

Chose a connector. Once done the editor will move to the topics field (sinks) and trigger auto-completion for the available topics in the cluster.

View details

Each External App has the following sections, you can access them via the context menu on the tree panel nodes, the leaf nodes, or from the breadcrumbs.

1. Profile — view the main metadata and summary

   1. Topics - view the topics the app reads and writes to, available from the context menu

2. Topology — view the topology of how the application interacts with topics

3. Activity — inspect the audit trail for the topic. See Governance

Manage

From the context menus you can:

1. Add, edit or remove runners

2. Remove the apps