Use dFlow~IQ
with confidence.
First-party instructions for Community edition, verified against the desktop application and separated from our general Kafka learning material.
chapters covering the complete desktop workflow
- Exact UI labels
- Safety constraints
- First-party behaviour
Product instructions live here.
This source explains where to click, what fields mean and which dFlow~IQ limits apply. For the underlying Kafka, schema and security concepts, use the separate Learning Centre.
Install and get oriented
Install Community, make your first privacy choices, understand navigation and learn where dFlow~IQ keeps local application data.
Create workspaces and connect securely
Create, open and manage workspace files; configure Kafka and Schema Registry authentication; and validate TLS before doing operational work.
Explore topics and records
Browse topic configuration, choose precise consumption positions, filter indexed records and retrieve exact payloads from Kafka.
Create producers and publish records
Configure serializer-aware producers, validate payloads locally, publish canaries and use bounded batch upload safely.
Inspect and compare schemas
Navigate subjects and versions, switch between text and graph views, compare revisions and validate a proposal without registering it.
Run bounded manual pipelines
Define a same-cluster raw-copy pipeline, dry-run a finite snapshot and confirm the exact target before producing anything.
Define and run Kafka integration tests
Publish bounded UTF-8 fixtures, observe only post-baseline output and evaluate exact, field, schema and absence assertions.
Configure and use AI responsibly
Add a local or hosted provider, test its destination, approve external sharing per conversation and review contextual data before sending.
Manage settings, privacy and local storage
Choose a theme, control optional diagnostics, set runtime memory and move the local application-data directory safely.
Troubleshoot safely
Locate failures by layer, preserve useful evidence and recover from common connection, serialization, local-state and workflow problems.