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Integrate Confluent-compatible registries in Kpow
This guide shows how to integrate Confluent-compatible schema registries - Confluent Schema Registry, Apicurio Registry, and Karapace - and manage them all through Kpow.
Set up Kpow with Google Cloud Managed Kafka
Integrate Kpow with Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your managed Kafka brokers and Schema Registry.
Resetting Kafka consumer offsets safely: clear, reset and skip with Kpow
Resetting a consumer group's offsets makes it reprocess or skip records. How to clear, reset and skip Kafka consumer offsets safely, step by step, in Kpow.
Set up Kpow with Amazon MSK
Integrate Kpow with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your AWS brokers, MSK Connect, and Glue Schema Registry.
Google MSK, Data Inspect, Docker A+
This minor release from Factor House adds support for GCP MSK, new data inspect display options, AVRO Date Logical Type formatting, flat CSV export, and a consumer offset reset fix.
Set Up Kpow with Confluent Cloud
Integrate Kpow with Confluent Cloud in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your managed Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Managed Connect, and ksqlDB.
Streams agent, offsets, Helm charts
This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!
How to query a Kafka topic
Querying Kafka topics is a critical but often complex and time-consuming task for engineers building streaming applications. Kpow's data inspect feature simplifies and speeds up Kafka topic queries.
Protobuf, Light Mode, and Community
This minor release from Factor House improves protobuf rendering, sharpens light mode, simplifies Community Edition setup, fixes small bugs, and bumps Kafka clients to v3.7.0.