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I have a Message Hub instance on Bluemix, and am able to produce / consume messages off it. I was looking for a quick, reasonable way to browse topics / messages to see what's going on. Something along the lines of kafka-topics-ui.

I installed kafka-topics-ui locally, but could not get it to connect to Message Hub. I used the kafka-rest-url value from the MessageHub credentials in the kafka-topics-ui configuration file (env.js), but could not figure out where to provide the API key.

Alternatively, in the Bluemix UI, under Kibana, I can see log entries for creating the topic. Unfortunately, I could not see log entries for messages in the topic (perhaps I'm looking the wrong place or have wrong filters?).

My guess is I'm missing something basic. Is there a way to either:

  • configure a tool such as kafka-topics-ui to connect to MessageHub, or,
  • browse topic messages easily?

Cheers.

Deven
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According to Using the Kafka REST API on Bluemix you need an additional header in all API requests:

-H "X-Auth-Token: APIKEY"

A quick solution is to edit the topic-ui code and include your token in every request. Another solution would be to use a Chrome plugin that can inject the above header. For a more formal solution, i have opened a ticket on github

Antonios Chalkiopoulos
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  • Thanks, @Antonios, that worked. I had to use nginx to get around the CORS issue. I added a `proxy_set_header X-Auth-Token ` in nginx config, and that solved it nicely! One other thing, I had to use `kafka-topics-ui` v 0.8.3, as the current version does not work with Bluemix. – Deven Aug 07 '17 at 22:18