# Registering External Apps in Lenses

## 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.

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### Add metadata

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

Add the endpoints where Lenses can check the health.
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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.

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## 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](/latest/user-guide/using/governance.md)

## Manage

From the context menus ![](/files/Y2EgmVIiR8Zx7JFtNmeC) you can:

1. Add, edit or remove runners
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