How to Find, Share, and Organize Your Data Streams with Stream Catalog | Confluent

This post introduces the Confluent Stream Catalog, detailing its core components (Apache Atlas, JanusGraph) and its functionality for searching, discovering, and organizing Kafka topics and schemas. It highlights the availability of a REST API for programmatic interaction, including searching for entities and tagging them with metadata like PII. A new GraphQL API is also introduced, leveraging the graph nature of the metadata for more complex queries and exploring relationships between entities. The post emphasizes the catalog's role in data governance and its integration with other Stream Governance pillars like Stream Lineage and Stream Quality.