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Mar 4, 2021

Quick profiling of data in Apache Kafka using kafkacat and visidata

ksqlDB is a fantastically powerful tool for processing and analysing streams of data in Apache Kafka. But sometimes, you just want a quick way to profile the data in a topic in Kafka. I wrote about this previously with a convoluted (but effective) set of bash commands pipelined together to perform a GROUP BY on data. Then someone introduced me to visidata, which makes it all a lot quicker!

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Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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