Confluent is a Windows online platform for connecting to Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka clusters or local development environments. Users can manage topics as well as monitor consumer groups and offsets. Please note that Confluent is a paid app. There is no free trial version.
Management tools
With the help of this program you are able to create and deploy Kafka Streams applications. There is support for the Java and Python programming languages. Moreover, it is possible to configure the processing topology, empowering rapid prototyping and development of real time pipelines.
Instruments for visualizing individual data streams are included. Users can view message content, key value pairs and associated JSON structures. This is helpful for getting clear insights into the information flowing through topics.
Connectors and tasks
You are able to integrate Confluent with ksqlDB, which is a stream processing engine based on SQL. There is an option to write kSQL queries to analyze and transform source data values.
It is easy to discover available connectors and configure them to work with external information sources and sinks. Users can monitor the execution status of each separate process as well.
Features
- free to download and use;
- provides tools for interacting with custom Apache Kafka data streams;
- supports several programming languages, including Java and Python;
- you can view message contents, key value pairs and relevant JSON files;
- compatible with modern versions of Windows.
