Lenses is a governance and developer platform for Apache Kafka, offered by Lenses.io. The vendor describes it as the developer experience and governance layer for engineers and AI agents, and its product set includes open-source connectors for moving data in and out of Kafka. A Community Edition, limited in users and environments, is installed with a Docker command. It is aimed at organisations that run Kafka and need to control access to streaming data.
Lenses.io Ltd is registered in England and Wales, with its registered office in London; it was incorporated in 2016 under the earlier name Landoop. In October 2021 the company was acquired by Celonis, a German process-intelligence company. Because the UK is outside the EU, the operating company falls under UK law, while its German parent belongs to a group based in the EU. Where the Community Edition runs on the customer's own infrastructure, the data stays there, but support, cloud and hosting arrangements should be confirmed in writing.