Kowl
Infrastructure
kafka web ui
SHOW HN2020
164points
32comments
#363of 3,028 in 2020
Top 12%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good UI and clean design
From 2 comments
This looks dope, I'll check it out after my vacation for our Kafka clusters. I haven't yet found a decent web interface for Kafka. For cluster overview there's cruise-control but…
jasonvorhe on HNJust wondering if there is also a plan to support PROTOBUF? Kowl looks to have a pretty decent UI. Thanks for making this one. Thanks to @tutbhuf for mention of kafdrop. Will…
siddharthgoel88 on HN
Fast and nice to use
From 1 comment
Just tried using it a bit. Seems nice and fast. But I am really lacking the ability to inspect message headers. Is that on the roadmap?
larsroholm on HN
Objections
Many Kafka UIs already exist
From 2 comments
CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool etc.... why are there so many attempts to build a kafka UI? Does each one have its own use case? I'd think that something as large…
abledon on HNyou must not have looked for long, most of the other OSS tools mentioned in this thread exist for several years already.
pandemic_region on HN
Missing message header inspection
From 1 comment
Just tried using it a bit. Seems nice and fast. But I am really lacking the ability to inspect message headers. Is that on the roadmap?
larsroholm on HN
Requests
Avro support via schema registry
From 1 comment
This looks great. Does it support avro via the schema registry?
mwaitjmp on HN
Protobuf support
From 1 comment
Just wondering if there is also a plan to support PROTOBUF? Kowl looks to have a pretty decent UI. Thanks for making this one. Thanks to @tutbhuf for mention of kafdrop. Will…
siddharthgoel88 on HN
Message header inspection
From 1 comment
Just tried using it a bit. Seems nice and fast. But I am really lacking the ability to inspect message headers. Is that on the roadmap?
larsroholm on HN
Questions
Does it support Avro via schema registry?
From 1 comment
This looks great. Does it support avro via the schema registry?
mwaitjmp on HN
Alternatives named
Kafdrop
From 1 comment
Our company uses https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop it's FOSS. It can also handle AVRO and PROTOBUF messages.
tutfbhuf on HN
AKHQ
From 1 comment
I also can recommend https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq for basic Kafka management
klden007 on HN
CMAK
From 1 comment
CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool etc.... why are there so many attempts to build a kafka UI? Does each one have its own use case? I'd think that something as large…
abledon on HN
Conduktor
From 1 comment
CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool etc.... why are there so many attempts to build a kafka UI? Does each one have its own use case? I'd think that something as large…
abledon on HN
kafkactl
From 1 comment
I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
mrorange27 on HN