Browse messages in Kafka topics with Message Viewer
Confluent for VS Code includes the Message Viewer. Use it to browse, search, and filter the messages in an Apache Kafka® topic directly from your editor, without switching to a separate tool.
Click the play icon next to a topic name to open the Message Viewer. It lets you search and explore messages in that topic. In Message Viewer, you can:
Page through and search for specific values within the list of all messages.
Double-click a message to see its headers, key, and value decoded to JSON. The detail view also shows metadata about the key or value schema used for deserialization.
Pause and resume consuming at any time.
See aggregate counts of messages over time in the histogram view, and drag across the histogram to filter messages by timestamp.
Toggle partitions on and off to show and hide messages from specific partitions.