We are curious whether Lenses platform supports latest Kafka Kraft mode?
Lenses is a Kafka client application. It interacts with your Kafka cluster using the standard Kafka client libraries (in this case, for Kafka 3.8).
KRaft (Kafka Raft Metadata mode) is a server-side implementation detail. It replaces ZooKeeper as the mechanism for how brokers manage cluster metadata, such as partition leadership and configurations. This entire process is internal to the brokers and is abstracted away from any connecting client.
Because of this client-server separation, Lenses doesn’t need to know or care whether your cluster uses KRaft or ZooKeeper. As long as it can connect to the broker bootstrap servers, it will function correctly.
When running in KRaft, however, for now, Lenses does not show the correct controllers number.