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Exploring the KafkaEsque UI features

Exploring the KafkaEsque UI features

Welcome to lesson 2.1, exploring the Kafka-esque user interface features. In this lesson, we're going to take a look at the Kafka-esque user interface, which is a window into Kafka as it's running. And we're going to use this in some future lessons as well to see what's going on inside Kafka when things are happening outside. So the first thing I want to do is check the notes file in the 2.1 Kafkaesque directory and that is under lesson 2 viewing Kafka 2.1 Kafkaesque. So let's take a look at that notes file as we've done before and it's not too long there's a few instructions here that that need to be done before Kafkaesque will work. And these are the following. When you use SSH to connect to the virtual machine, you need to include a dash X, which tells SSH to perform X forwarding, meaning any X Windows displays that are happening on the virtual machine will now show up on your host. And this is why you need MOBA Xterm on a PC, and you also need Xcorts on a Mac system. And I'll take…

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