UI for Apache Kafka
Dev tools
kafka management ui
SHOW HN2021
158points
53comments
#304of 2,533 in 2021
Top 13%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Docs: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and good multi-cluster support
From 2 comments
A few pieces of feedback. Positive: ``` - Multi-cluster support is a great feature! That's the main thing missing from Kowl, in my opinion - The UI feels clean - Message…
db3pt0 on HNLooks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web…
epberry on HN
Open source alternative to paid Kafka UIs
From 2 comments
https://lenses.io/ Kafka UI is pretty solid. Nice to see an open source alternative here.
kkcorps on HNLooks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web…
epberry on HN
Supports AWS MSK and Kafka Connect
From 2 comments
Sure, This fully support AWS MSK including AWS IAM authentication, Glue schema registry and AWS Kafka Connect
germanosin on HNUI for Apache also provides full support for Kafka Connect
germanosin on HN
Objections
Missing some features such as CleanupPolicy handling and slow consumer loading in large clusters
From 1 comment
A few pieces of feedback. Positive: ``` - Multi-cluster support is a great feature! That's the main thing missing from Kowl, in my opinion - The UI feels clean - Message…
db3pt0 on HN
Arm Mac Docker image problems
From 1 comment
The UI looks great. I wanted to try it but am unable to run it in mac with m1 chip. Is there a docker image for arm based processors as well?
prtk25 on HN
Comparison article seen as biased by maker's employer
From 2 comments
You should have mentioned that you work at Provectus in this article. Feels pretty sneaky to claim to do an impartial review, but provide no negative critique of the one made by…
spenczar5 on HNThis is indeed a very biased comparision where some features in the comparision table are just claimed to be not supported by other (open source) solutions. Even after reaching…
weeco on HN
Requests
Docker image for ARM processors
From 1 comment
The UI looks great. I wanted to try it but am unable to run it in mac with m1 chip. Is there a docker image for arm based processors as well?
prtk25 on HN
Documentation for setting up with AWS MSK
From 1 comment
Nice. Is there are documentation on how to set it up for MSK?
spushkarev on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Confluent's web GUI
From 1 comment
Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web…
epberry on HN
Does it support AWS MSK
From 1 comment
Thanks for posting. Does it support AWS MSK?
spushkarev on HN
Alternatives named
Kowl
From 2 comments
There are several alternatives posted here already, but after comparing several ones maybe a year ago I found Kowl very nice: Nice UI, backend written in Go (quick startup, low…
PhilippGille on HNThere's a lot great and developing tools for Kafka right now. CMAK doesn't seem that active, and I believe it was one of the tools we quickly gave up on, because it was a little…
mrweasel on HN
Kafdrop
From 1 comment
We use Kafdrop for viewing topics/messages/info and it's really nice. It's read-only though, so if you need to configure a topic or push a message you have to use something else.…
faxmeyourcode on HN
CMAK
From 2 comments
Neat! Just be wary around licensing, we’ve been using a similar management tool for a couple years https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK which was originally Kafka manager but they were…
daniel-grigg on HNWhat is the difference between this and https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK
qrpike on HN
AKHQ
From 1 comment
Where I work we use Confluent Cloud who has their own proprietary UI. I've always found it to be lacking, hard to use and not very good. We substituted it with AKHQ…
dillon on HN
kPow
From 2 comments
https://kpow.io - we build kPow for Apache Kafka, a drop-in replacement for Confluent Control Center + much more. https://kpow.io/features - Multi-Cluster, Multi-Schema,…
d_t_w on HNI rolled out kPow initially for my team of 10 to help us manage and monitor our clusters. We’ve now rolled it out to our 400+ engineers who use it every day to help them gain…
chadhq on HN
Lenses
From 1 comment
https://lenses.io/ Kafka UI is pretty solid. Nice to see an open source alternative here.
kkcorps on HN