# Can i connect Lenses to Azure Event Hubs?

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**Created:** [November 22, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/can-i-connect-lenses-to-azure-event-hubs/309 "2024-11-22T18:51:00Z")\
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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](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/azure-event-hubs-kafka-overview) 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 :

```auto
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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 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/lenses1/original/1X/deb2eaed37fecfabba17add9ff11126753fee2f8.png)

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