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Lenses.io for AWS MSK

Full visibility and control over your real-time data and applications on AWS Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.

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01.

What do I get with Lenses.io
for MSK?

In just a few short minutes, Lenses.io will be deployed into your own AWS VPC environment and connected to your AWS MSK cluster. Finally giving you complete visibility and control over your real-time data and applications including:

  • Data access with SQL
  • Self-service data & application operations
  • Real-time app and data integration development with SQL

02.

Pre-requisites

Ensure your Amazon MSK environment is up and running. Have the cluster details handy (such as the ARN handy), you’ll need it later.

You’ll need an AWS account with permissions to deploy Cloudformation templates via the AWS marketplace.

For full details see our documentation

locked and loaded

03.

Get your license key

Download your Lenses.io license key. You will have received an email with a link. If not, be sure to sign up here.

license key

04.

Connect to community Slack

In case you hit any bumps in the road, connect with the Lenses.io engineering team and thousands of other Apache Kafka community members via https://launchpass.com/lensesio

slack community

05.

Access the AWS Marketplace

Subscribe to Lenses.io in the AWS Marketplace
and subscribe to the product.

AWS marketplace

06.

Configure your deployment

Configure the Lenses.io instance that will be deployed via Cloudformation. Select the “Lenses EC2 MSK” instance and the latest version. Deploy in your preferred region and Launch CloudFormation!

configure-deployment

07.

Create the stack

The template is ready with no need to customize. Do not change the Amazon S3 URL value.

create stack

08.

Configure stack details

  1. Choose a name for your Lenses.io deployment stack
  2. Configure the details of your VPC and Subnet to deploy to
  3. Select a t2.large instance.
  4. Set a CIDR range for SSHLocation and LensesLocation in accordance with your security policies
  5. Paste in the license key in the form of a JSON object directly into the Lenses License field.
  6. Copy the ARN and Security Group Applied from your MSK Cluster Summary page.
  7. Select to send the metrics to Cloudwatch.
Configure stack details

09.

Configure stack options

Add tags of your choice to identify and classify your Lenses.io stack.

Configure stack options

10.

Review & create stack

Review all the configuration & accept the acknowledgement before creating your stack.

Review create stack

11.

Find FQDN of created stack

From the Outputs of your stack - access Lenses.io from your browser via the FQDN on port 9991

fqdn

12.

Login and enjoy

Login with username admin and the password as the instance ID (Physical ID) of your Lenses EC2 instance

login portal
frequently asked questions-faq

Frequently Asked Questions

How I can enable JMX metrics with Lenses and MSK brokers?

You need to enable Open Monitoring during the deployment of MSK or use the quick-create starter cluster with recommended settings (where Open Monitoring is enabled by default)

Where can I get full documentation of the installation process?

See here

How can I get help during my trial?

Speak to our engineering team on our community Slack channel.

Register here

Does the MSK support JMX metrics for Zookeeper nodes?

MSK currently does not provide any means of collecting Zookeeper JMX metrics.

How can I ssh to the Lenses EC2 Instance?

You will need to use the AWS EC2 Instance Connect CLI (the mssh command).

See here for more details.

Where can I find the Lenses configuration is in the EC2?

As a root under the /opt/lenses directory

Do you have more questions?
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