Can i connect Lenses to Azure Event Hubs?

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Can i use Lenses to get visibility into Azure Event Hubs like I can with Kafka?

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Yes! Azure Eventhub is now compatible with Kafka API Introduction to Apache Kafka in Event Hubs on Azure Cloud - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learn and can be successfully connected to Lenses just like a Kafka cluster.

This means you can use Lenses to see your topics (Event Hubs), your messages, consumers, etc…

To set up lenses for Event Hubs namespace, got to Admin, Connections-> Kafka.
the setup should be :

bootstrapserver : NAMESPACENAME.servicebus.windows.net:9093
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
protocol : SASL_SSL
sasl.jaas.config=
org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="$ConnectionString" 
password="sb://namespace.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=XXX;SharedAccessKey=YYYYY";

Note : for password : copy the connection string from Event Hubs console

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You will see your topics and can run SQL queries against them, manage permissions and everything else you can do with Kafka.