Kafka Streams generates an ASCII Kafka Topology and prints it to the console during startup. These ASCII topologies can be huge and hard to understand.
There is a handy tool which allows you to visualize your ASCII topology to a hand drawn diagram. Just copy the topology from the console and paste it to the form:
The result will be shown as a diagram that describes your current Kafka Streams topology. As for me such representation is much more comfortable to analyze and debug:
