This page describes an overview of managing Kafka Connectors in Lenses.
For documentation about the available Lenses Apache 2.0 Connectors, see the Stream Reactor documentation.
To connect your Connect Clusters see provisioning.
Lenses connects to Connect Clusters via Connects APIs. You can deploy connectors outside of Lenses and Lenses will still be able to see and manage them
You can connect Lenses to one or more Kafka Connect clusters. Once connected, Lenses will list the available Connector plugins installed in each Cluster. Additionally, Connectors can automatically be restarted and alert notifications sent.
To list the deployed connectors go to Environments->[Your Environment]->Workspace->Connectors. Lenses will display a list of connectors and their status.
Once a connector has been created, selecting the connector allows us to:
View its configuration
Update its configurations (Action)
View individual task configurations
View metrics
View exceptions.
To view the YAML specification as Code, select the Code tab in the Connector details page.
To download the YAML specification, click the Download button.
To create a new connector go to Environments->[Your Environment]->Workspace->Connectors->New Connectors.
Select the Connect Cluster you want to use and Lenses will display the plugins installed in the Connect Cluster.
Connectors are searchable by:
Type
Author
After selecting a connector, enter the configuration of the connector instance. Lenses will show the documentation for the currently selected option.
To deploy and start the connector, click Create.
Creation of a Connector as code can be done via either
Selecting Environments->[Your Environment]->Connectors->Configure Connector->Configure As Code from the main connector page, or
Selecting a Connect Cluster and Connector, then the Code tab
Both options allow for direct input of a Connectors YAML specification or uploading of an existing file.
Connectors can be stopped, restarted, and deleted via the Actions button.