kafdrop VS sarama

Are there any comparison to CMAK or Kafdrop ?

Kafdrop - https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop

No mentions, and 1 open issue with a question 2) Kafka Drop https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop

- https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter - https://github.com/lightbend/kafka-lag-exporter (Export Kafka Topics Lag Metrics) - https://github.com/danielqsj/kafka_exporter (Export Kafka Metrics) - https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop (Topic Administration tool - create/edit/delete topics & view messages)

Kafdrop (https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop) is very popular and pretty solid. I'd start there. Kafka itself also comes with some cli tools and you can also extract metrics out of it via JMX/jolokia.

Kafdrop

Good kafka docker setup with enclouded UI is confluent, but it's had huge images size and will download a half of world wide internet to your local pc.🤖 For this reason here as UI client i used kafdrop

Kafdrop from Obsidian Dynamics (GitHub) => http://localhost:8082/

Note: Since there are multiple Go clients for Kafka (including Sarama), please make sure to consult their client documentation to confirm whether they support IAM authentication.

You might want to gradually replace that one with https://github.com/twmb/franz-go because Shopify is looking to find a new owner for Sarama and, until or if they do, it seems to be falling behind with maintenance: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2461 For example, they still haven’t addressed this breaking change https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2358. franz-go has worked well so far in Benthos https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/tree/main/internal/impl/kafka and it will likely end up as the only implementation once the Sarama-based one will be deprecated

I've used mainly sarama wrapped with a bit of bespoke helper libraries. Never really looked into others, just grabbed one that was actively maintained and went for it.

Well, as someone who reviews a lot of code, I don't like seeing 100s of little files when a handful of logically grouped files would do. For example, this popular go project: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama is currently 256 small .go files, largely following a one class/file rule.

The first example is something we ran into while working on a project. Up until recently, the sarama library (Go library for Apache Kafka) contained the following piece of code (at sarama/version.go):

If you find the kafka input slow, try kafka_franz. It might be a bit faster, since it’s based on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go. The kafka one is based on https://github.com/Shopify/sarama. You can also write a custom input based on https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, but this library relies on CGo, which can be annoying.

There are a few factors that are stopping me from using kafka-go over Shopify's sarama.

Here are our test results to find the root cause. https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/1894#issuecomment-789427055