Topic Browse

Functionality

Overview

Topic Browse is used by Platform Manager to display topic messages in the Self Service UI. This way, data can be inspected quickly without having to develop a consumer application.

README & Changelog

More details are in the Topic Browse 0.4.9 Readme and the Topic Browse 0.4.9 Changelog

Example use

A developer just received permission to produce data to a Kafka topic, as soon as the application presumably sent some data, the developer can verify the data on the Kafka topic using Topic Browse instead of creating a consumer application.

API

Topic Browse should be used only through the Platform Manager API.

Installation

The topic-browse is part of the Self Service stack and does rely on Platform Manager and Apache Kafka primarily.

Helm Charts

As part of the Governance Helm charts, Topic Browse can be installed following the guide Axual Streaming & Governance Installation.

Configuration

Helm configuration

All details of the Helm Chart configurations are in Topic Browse 0.4.9 Helm Readme

Logging

Change the logging configuration by following these steps.

Metrics

Topic Browse exposes the default Prometheus metrics via the Spring Boot Actuator, without additional custom metrics.
More info about Monitoring & Metrics here.