Robin Moffatt • 3/4/2021

Quick profiling of data in Apache Kafka using kafkacat and visidata

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This technical article explains how to use kafkacat and visidata together to sample and profile data from Apache Kafka topics. It provides command examples for both JSON and Avro formatted data, including configurations for use with Confluent Cloud, to create histograms and explore data structure for pipeline development.

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