News, guides, and engineering deep dives.
Practical guidance on Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and real-time data.
Rapid Kafka diagnostics: a unified workflow
Fragmented tools force engineers to manually piece together logs and metrics when troubleshooting Kafka. This guide shows how Kpow's unified workflow finds a stall, inspects data, and resolves it.
UI performance improvements
95.5 is a minor bugfix release focusing on UI performance and resolving some regressions introduced by Kpow 95.4.
Concurrent inspect, Strimzi support
Kpow 95.4 introduces concurrent data inspect queries, Strimzi support, and improved consumer group management and monitoring.
Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud
Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your managed Kafka brokers and Schema Registry in the Kpow UI.
Factor House expands to Europe
Discover how Factor House's expansion into Germany brings enterprise-grade control and monitoring to European teams running Kafka and Flink.
Self-service Kafka governance with ServiceNow
Implement Just-in-Time Kafka access by integrating Kpow with ServiceNow. Automate approvals and temporary policy management to enhance security and developer self-service.
Beyond Reagent: migrating to React 19
Introducing HSX and RFX, two new open source Clojure UI libraries by Factor House. They are drop-in replacements for Reagent and Re-Frame, enabling migration to React 19.
Improvements to Data Inspect in Kpow 94.3
Kpow's 94.3 release lets you query topics using plain English with AI-powered filtering, automatically decode any message format, and use new enhancements to the kJQ language.
Introducing Factor House Docs
Factor House Docs is now live: a unified hub for our product documentation, with a new task-based structure, interactive kJQ examples, and powerful search across Kpow, Flex, and Factor Platform.