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RBAC Improvements
Kpow supports RBAC configurable role field and authenticated roles restrictions
Custom Serdes for KJQ
Kpow supports custom serdes for KJQ, allowing you to search protobuf data on Kafka topics with JQ queries.
Websocket Concurrency
Kpow improves support for multiple concurrent users executing complex queries
Topic Inspect Serdes Warnings
Kpow provides inline reporting of serialisation and deserialisation errors in the results of Topic Inspect queries.
Topic Inspect with KJQ
Kpow provides support for executing JQ-like queries on Kafka topics with KJQ.
Data masking and Slack integration
Kpow provides masking and redaction of Topic Inspect results via configurable Data Policies, and integrates the Audit Log with Slack so you can monitor user actions on Kafka resources.
JS Optimization Bugfix
A minor bugfix release resolving an issue with the datepicker in Topic Inspect
Realtime Kafka Monitoring
Kpow supports realtime monitoring of Apache Kafka with Live Mode, improving consumer group lag visualisations.
RBAC, SAML SSO, and HTTPS
Kpow support user authz capabilities including Role Based Access Control (RBAC), SAML SSO including Azure AD and AWS SSO, and the ability to easily configure HTTPS out-of-the-box