A schema registry stores the shape of your messages. It does not tell you who owns them, what they mean, or whether the change you are about to publish will break someone. event7 adds the layer that does, above the registry you already run.
Four things go wrong in every event-driven system, and none of them are the registry's fault. A registry stores schemas. That is all it was built to do.
Schemas are scattered across several registries, and each vendor governs them differently.
Nothing connects the technical schema to its business meaning: no owner, no classification, no data layer.
Contracts drift. A field changes, and you find out when a consumer breaks in production.
Whatever governance you do add is locked inside one vendor's tool, and does not travel.
Schemas stay in your registry. Everything event7 adds lives in event7, so switching registry does not cost you your governance.
Side-by-side, field by field, with breaking changes flagged. Works on Avro, JSON Schema and Protobuf.
Registry compatibility, governance rules and the diff preview in a single answer: pass, warn or fail.
Tags, owners, descriptions, data layers and classification, attached to the schema and stored outside the registry.
Conditions, transforms and policies, with a three-axis score covering enrichment, rules and schema quality.
Map a schema to where it actually travels: Kafka topics, RabbitMQ exchanges, Pulsar, NATS, Redis streams.
Import a spec to create channels and register schemas, or generate one from event7, with drift detection between the two.
event7 is not a registry, not a documentation portal, not a Kafka operations tool. It is the layer between your infrastructure and your documentation.
Schema Registry ──► event7 ──► AsyncAPI ──► EventCatalog
stores governs specifies documents
validates
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└── scores · rules · channels · owners