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Dashboards and Queries for Apache Kafka

Business and IT teams use them to track metrics, visualize trends, and make decisions. The conversation often jumps to technical options like Flink SQL, Kafka Streams Interactive Queries, or Confluent's TableFlow.

Dashboards and Queries for Apache Kafka

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Business and IT teams use them to track metrics, visualize trends, and make decisions.

Others try to build interactive dashboards directly on top of Kafka topics using a JDBC connector into a database and a Business Intelligence tool.

The conversation often jumps to technical options like Flink SQL, Kafka Streams Interactive Queries, or Confluent's TableFlow.

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Business and IT teams use them to track metrics, visualize trends, and make decisions. The conversation often jumps to technical options like Flink SQL, Kafka Streams Interactive Queries, or Confluent's TableFlow. Others try to build interactive dashboards directly on top of Kafka topics using a JDBC connector into a database and a Business Intelligence tool.

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