Can the UI be used on messaging systems like kafka/pulsar?
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Nate
06/30/2025, 2:54 PM
hi @Royzac - the UI shows prefect objects like task and flow runs
so as phrased, the answer to your question is probably no
do you want to expand on your question?
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Royzac
06/30/2025, 3:03 PM
Thanks @Nate I guess what I'm trying to ask is there place for the UI when it comes to messaging/streaming platforms in a meaningful way? By meaningful, I mean can I see producers, broker, and client interactions via prefect task/flow runs?
Sorry if the question comes across as unusual, admittedly I'm new user when it comes to streaming platforms and unfamiliar with the development of prefect over the last 2 years.
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Nate
06/30/2025, 3:08 PM
in general, the UI mirrors and expands upon what's offered by the REST API, so that's runs and events and deployments and work pools etc (all the left nav stuff)
the prefect server uses a customizable messaging broker but that more on the implementation detail side, so for example you can hook up redis streams as the messaging implementation for events in prefect, but you won't see anything about redis streams in the UI, only the Prefect events that happen to be "messages" in that message bus
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