Installing Lenses using Docker

1. Prerequisites

To follow this guide you will need:

1. Docker installed.

2. Kafka brokers details and optionally metrics details. Check Managed Kafka links for more details on cloud.

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2. Lenses license

Click here to get your Lenses license.

3. Running Lenses with Docker

Run the following in a terminal.

docker run -e LENSES_PORT=8080 -p 8080:8080 lensesio/lenses

A message similar to the following should appear in the logs:

2021-12-16 18:17:04,322 INFO  [i.l.b.r.HttpServer] [ioapp-compute-6] Lenses http server started and listening to requests.

Now you will able to visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser which will lead you to the Setup Wizard