Visualizing topics/queues instead of just schemas

[skonik]

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Description

Hello, is it possible to add some kind of topic/queue name link which can affect visualization?
Everything looks great with just events, but sometimes I need to understand what kafka topics are connected.
Would be nice to have such feature.

Motivation

To be able track connections between topics/queues instead of just events.

[GDS-Dominic]

Not necessarily just topics / queues. There could be some sort of service which routes events do other consumers

[gongshishao]

Any update ?

[boyney123]

Love this idea!

[boyney123]

Do you have any ideas on how this would look?

[skonik]

Would be enough to provide an option "All queues and services " as second option. Just change events to queues/topics and that's exactly what I would like to see.

In next iteration it might be cool to create a tooltip on queue node showing a list of events connected to queue.

[boyney123]

@skonik curious what you think about having channels as a entity in the catalog. You will be able to create them like you can events, document them and link them between things.

Topics, maybe the ability to change the name of the event (type: topic) or something may work, or just accept topics as an entity too?

[skonik]

@skonik curious what you think about having channels as a entity in the catalog. You will be able to create them like you can events, document them and link them between things.

Introducing channels is good idea. Concept of channels is being described by asyncapi specification. It could be used as reference

Topics, maybe the ability to change the name of the event (type: topic) or something may work, or just accept topics as an entity too?

We should go with channel as new entity and display channel name as node label then.
So, not topics, but channels with specified name, I guess.