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An exciting Kafka Desktop GUI

Brief introduction

  • Quickly view all Kafka clusters, including Brokers, Topics and Consumers
  • Support for various authentication modes: PLAINTEXT, SASL_PLAINTEXT, SSL, SASL_SSL
  • Perform health checks on Kafka clusters
  • View the content of messages in partitions and add new messages
  • See which topics consumers are subscribed to and to which consumers the partition is assigned; when there is a backlog of messages, Kafka Assistant helps you quickly pinpoint the problem
  • With data templates and timers, you can send thousands of messages at a time for performance testing to see how your system handles the load
  • Display messages in beautiful formats such as JSON, AVRO, XML, MessagePack, hexadecimal, etc.
  • Support for converting AVRO format to JSON to help your debugging process
  • Add and remove topics, reset consumer offsets, and other administrative features

Download at: http://www.redisant.cn/ka

Software screenshots

Quickly connect to your Kafka cluster and start working

Kafka Assistant supports various authentication modes, including PLAINTEXT, SASL_PLAINTEXT, SSL, SASL_SSL

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Real-time view of your Kafka health metrics

Kafka Assistant provides a dashboard feature that allows you to visualize a variety of common health metrics in real time, including incoming and outgoing bytes per second, message volume, request processor idle rate, and more

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Support for rich data formats

Kafka Assistant automatically recognizes and formats different data formats, including Text, JSON, AVRO, XML, HEX, MessagePack, and various integer and floating point types

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Quickly consume and publish messages

Can consume messages and filter messages from the very beginning of a topic, at a specified timestamp or at a specified offset; publish messages with data templates sending thousands of messages at a time for performance testing to see how the system handles the load

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View and update Kafka configuration in real time

Using Kafka Assistant, you can quickly view and update Broker, Topic configurations; manage consumer groups, reset offsets, or see which topics and partitions they are subscribed to

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Generate topology maps

Generate topology maps with one click for applications that use Streams API for streaming, with support for exporting to png, svg, pdf, tk, dot, etc.

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Plot the collected messages as a diagram

If the messages in your topic are in a consistent format and contain fields that can be plotted, Kafka Assistant will automatically parse these fields and plot them, allowing you to see the data at a glance over time

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