How-to

This guide demonstrates how to enhance Kafka monitoring and data governance by integrating Kpow's audit logs with external systems. We provide a step-by-step walkthrough for configuring webhooks to send real-time user activity alerts from your Kafka environment directly into collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, streamlining your operational awareness and response.

This project transforms the static "theLook" eCommerce dataset into a live data stream. It uses a Python generator to simulate user activity in PostgreSQL, while Debezium captures every database change and streams it to Kafka. This creates a hands-on environment for building and testing real-time CDC pipelines.

Learn how to build a real-time "Top-K" analytics pipeline from scratch using a modern data stack. This open-source project guides you through using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Streamlit to ingest, process, and visualize live data, turning a continuous stream of events into actionable insights on an interactive dashboard.

Kpow 94.3 now integrates with Google Cloud's managed Schema Registry, enabling native OAuth authentication. This guide walks through the complete process of configuring authentication and using Kpow to create, manage, and inspect data validated against Avro schemas.

Learn how to integrate Bufstream—a Kafka-compatible streaming platform—with Kpow to enable streamlined, schema-aware development for Kafka-compatible streaming platforms.

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to integrating Kpow with the Redpanda platform, covering the complete configuration needed to monitor the Kafka-compatible broker and manage schemas through its built-in schema registry.

This guide demonstrates how to address the operational complexity of managing multiple Kafka schema registries. We integrate Confluent-compatible registries—Confluent Schema Registry, Apicurio Registry, and Karapace—and manage them all through a single pane of glass using Kpow.

Kpow version 94.2 enhances consumer group management capabilities, providing greater control and visibility into Kafka consumption. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to manage consumer offsets in Kpow.

A practical, step-by-step guide on setting up a Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster and connecting it from Kpow using the OAUTHBEARER mechanism.

A comprehensive, step by step guide to provisioning Amazon MSK infrastructure, configuring authentication with the OAUTHBEARER mechanism using AWS IAM, setting up a client EC2 instance within the same VPC, and deploying Kpow.