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A second command-line tool has been added to ktools. The command kafka-console-consumer-filter
allows for filtering JSON,
JSON Schema, and Avro serialized messages by JSON Path expressions. In addition to filtering a message, JSON Paths
can also be used for highlighting elements within the JSON.