JMS Bridge Grafana Demo

Overview

The JMS-Bridge is a component that can be used to facilitate quicker migration from legacy JMS based systems to ones built around the Confluent Platform:
https://www.confluent.io/confluent-accelerators/
(See JMS 2.0 Bridge section)

This JMS Bridge Grafana Demo runs the JMS Bridge in a Docker Compose along with Confluent Cloud, Grafana with the KSQL plugin , and includes a use case for geographical visual of airport traveler events in a Grafana Dashboard.

The JMS Bridge Grafana Demo includes the following components:

• Confluent Cloud: A fully managed Apache Kafka service.
• JMS Bridge: A component that can be used to facilitate quicker migration from legacy JMS based systems to ones built around the Confluent Platform.
• Grafana: A multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application.
• KSQL Plugin for Grafana: A Grafana plugin that allows you to query and visualize data from Confluent Cloud using KSQL.

Installation - Prerequisites

To run this demo, you need to have the following installed on your machine:

• Docker
• Confluent Cloud Account

Installation

1. Log into Confluent Cloud and enter your email and password. If you are not registered before, [click here][https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/tryfree/] to register.

2. Once you have logged in, click on the menu icon at the upper right hand corner and click Cloud API Keys to create Cloud API Keys for the terraform provider.

3. Click + Add Key to create a new API Key.

4. For the purpose of this demo selet Global Access and click Next

5. Type a description and to preserve the keys, click download.

6. Create a file called values.tfvars with the following content in the same directory as docker-compose.yml:

confluent_cloud_api_key="<confluent_cloud_api_key>"
confluent_cloud_api_secret="<confluent_cloud_api_secret>"
confluent_cloud_provider="<confluent_cloud_provider[AWS|GCP|AZURE]>"
confluent_cloud_region="<confluent_cloud_region>"
confluent_cloud_environment_name="<confluent_cloud_environment_name>"
confluent_cloud_cluster_name="<confluent_cloud_cluster_name>"

7. run the following command to deploy the JMS Bridge Grafana Demo

cd jms-bridge-grafana-demo
./deploy.sh

Usage

To produce messages, run the following command:

cd jms-bridge-grafana-demo
./produce.sh

Now you can access the Grafana Dashboard by visiting http://localhost:3000 and select the PSY Traveler Events Dashboard in the Dashboards section.

Cleanup

To stop and remove the containers, run the following command:

cd jms-bridge-grafana-demo
./destroy.sh