Product Overview¶
Lenses is a data platform giving you visibility and full control over your real-time data. It allows you to manage enterprise-scale data-operations and enables data stewards, analysts or scientists, and application developers alike to engage with any company data appropriate to their role, using their preferred technology stack. Lenses accomplishes this while obeying security and regulatory-based access limitations.
Lenses works on top of Apache Kafka, bringing your data together on a common platform, enabling observability, data visualization, real-time processing, and self-service scalability over Kubernetes.
As a data platform over complex distributed infrastructure, Lenses provides all the necessary monitoring to make sure you never miss an SLA while integrating with other enterprise monitoring platforms.
Why Lenses¶
Let’s agree: You have probably many storage and management systems for your data at rest. They might be a warehouse, a search engine, a time series databases and so on. Data moves through simple or complex pipelines between various systems and microservices managed by various teams to drive your business.
Business Challenges
Adopting modern technologies to accommodate such requirements means investing time and training to shift to a whole new ecosystem of distributed real-time systems. It requires building a DevOps mindset and capability while redefining production readiness and compliance.
Technical Challenges
Continuously integrating and processing enterprise data in real time, becomes a hard requirement for your development team. Discoverability, Accessibility and Self-service integration over modern distributed infrastructures, can cause a distraction from building business value.
The Platform¶
Lenses is your default browser for data-in-motion
Lenses leverages two powerful open source engines, Apache Kafka and Kubernetes, to help you build the Data Highway within your organization. It covers the requirements of a modern platform for data-in-motion to enable observability and data movement while leveraging SQL. It provides self-service data operations to manage real-time data pipelines at scale. Fine-grained data access and governance are first class citizens across the platform, to ensure support for multi-tenant environments and data protection.
- Get Rapid Time to Value
- Increase Team Productivity
- Reduce Cost & Risk
- Use current skills
- Enterprise Ready Governance
Open up your data, fearlessly
Lenses allows all applications and users in your enterprise to access data-in-motion. JDBC connectivity and clients for Python, Golang, and Redux are all supported.