Lenses Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Invaluable tool for anyone using Kafka"

What do you like best about Lenses? A great way to sample and query data in a GUI. We didn't have a reliable way to do that before. What do you dislike about Lenses?

"Lenses for understanding Kafka"

What do you like best about Lenses? Lenses provides a quick inside view of all you data flow. It has helped our junior team coming from an SQL background to understand Kafka and its streaming nature much faster flattening the learning curve.

"DataOps for Kafka"

What do you like best about Lenses? Lenses is amazing at providing insights into the Kafka topics as well as offering a broad range of tools for administering Kafka data policies, ACLs, SQL Processors, Kafka Connectors. I appreciate how easy it is to explore data using the SQL Studio tool. Also the continuous monitoring and audit capabilities are providing good value and instant feedback about the state of the Kafka cluster.

"Excellent addition to kafka"

What do you like best about Lenses? - Beautiful, responsive UI for kafka overview and with lenses SQL for kafka topics browsing - Advanced kafka broker metrics which simplify monitoring and alerting

"Powerful tool for increased productivity"

What do you like best about Lenses? Lenses is an intuitive tool that provides great observability and management features for our streaming environment. It has some very useful interfaces for managing and querying Kafka topics. Lenses has proven to increase productivity in our environment by enabling developers to more quickly ascertain state.

"Amazing Product with Amazing Support from and Amazing Company"

What do you like best about Lenses? The support on their product! They are unparalleled and quick to respond to any question (even if the fault is not their own). Their team is always friendly and willing to help. It is a pleasure to work with them. Please never change! The slack community is a HUGE benefit for us users. The Lenses product is amazing and I am positive it has drastically increased our development times using Kafka.

"A very respectable add-on for the enterprise-grade Kafka cluster!"

What do you like best about Lenses? The view into the data in our Kafka topics, the ability to "scan through" the records in a topic and query it for troubleshooting.

"Very complete tool to browse and understand what's happening inside your clusters"

What do you like best about Lenses? Topologies, UX and how easy is to use #awesome What do you dislike about Lenses?

"Lenses is one of those tools that when you get accustomed to you really can't live without."

What do you like best about Lenses? The ability to quickly filter the messages inside the Kafka topics by SQL. P.S: the autocompletion suggestions are invaluable.

"lenses, a kafka story"

What do you like best about Lenses? I like the custom serde ability and lenses sql. What do you dislike about Lenses?