With the rapid onset of the global Covid-19 Pandemic from the start of this year the USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had to quickly implement a new Covid-19 specific pipeline to collect testing data from all of the USA’s states and territories, and carry out other critical steps including integration, cleaning, checking, enrichment, analysis, and enforcing data governance and privacy etc. The pipeline then produces multiple consumable results for federal and public agencies. They did this in under 30 days, using Apache Kafka. In this presentation we'll build a similar (but simpler) pipeline for ingesting, integrating, indexing, searching/analysing and visualising some publicly available tidal data. We'll briefly introduce each technology and component, and walk through the steps of using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Elasticsearch and Kibana to build the pipeline and visualise the results.