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Top 23 Go Kafka Projects
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Telegraf
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
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Stream
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kubeshark
The API traffic analyzer for Kubernetes providing real-time K8s protocol-level visibility, capturing and monitoring all traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers, pods, nodes and clusters. Inspired by Wireshark, purposely built for Kubernetes
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Project mention: Watermill – Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-31
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Jocko
Kafka implemented in Golang with built-in coordination (No ZK dep, single binary install, Cloud Native)
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InfluxDB
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go-zero-looklook
🔥基于go-zero(go zero) 微服务全技术栈开发最佳实践项目。Develop best practice projects based on the full technology stack of go zero (go zero) microservices.
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kubeblocks
KubeBlocks is an open-source control plane software that runs and manages databases, message queues and other stateful applications on K8s.
Project mention: KubeBlocks – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-14 -
peerdb
Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage
Project mention: Go channels are bad and you should feel bad (2016) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-13I'm guilty of this too https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb/blob/d36da8bb2f4f6c1c821...
The inner channel is a poor man's future. Came up with this to have lua runtimes be able to process in parallel while maintaining ordering (A B C in, results of A B C out)
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goka
Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go.
Project mention: connect VS goka - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/redpanda-data/connect | 2024-07-23 -
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franz-go
franz-go contains a feature complete, pure Go library for interacting with Kafka from 0.8.0 through 4.0+. Producing, consuming, transacting, administrating, etc.
Project mention: Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-03BTW I think most the ecosystem has settled on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go being the best and highest performing kafka client for Golang
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plumber
A swiss army knife CLI tool for interacting with Kafka, RabbitMQ and other messaging systems.
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vanus
Vanus is a Serverless, event streaming system with processing capabilities. It easily connects SaaS, Cloud Services, and Databases to help users build next-gen Event-driven Applications.
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Project mention: Akvorado: Flow Collector, Enricher and Visualizer | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-15
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bento
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane. This repository is a fork of the original project before the license was changed. (by warpstreamlabs)
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gnomock
Test your code without writing mocks with ephemeral Docker containers 📦 Setup popular services with just a couple lines of code ⏱️ No bash, no yaml, only code 💻
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openmeter
Metering and Billing for AI, API and DevOps. Collect and aggregate millions of usage events in real-time and enable usage-based billing.
Project mention: Revolutionize Your Billing with OpenMeter: The Open-Source Solution for AI and DevTool Companies | dev.to | 2025-04-24View the Project on GitHub
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go-stash
go-stash is a high performance, free and open source server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from Kafka, processes it, and then sends it to ElasticSearch.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Kafka projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Telegraf | 15,761 |
| 2 | sarama | 12,104 |
| 3 | kubeshark | 11,430 |
| 4 | watermill | 8,656 |
| 5 | connect | 8,405 |
| 6 | kafka-go | 8,125 |
| 7 | Jocko | 4,975 |
| 8 | go-zero-looklook | 4,799 |
| 9 | Gizmo | 3,769 |
| 10 | kubeblocks | 2,762 |
| 11 | peerdb | 2,589 |
| 12 | goka | 2,461 |
| 13 | kafka_exporter | 2,385 |
| 14 | franz-go | 2,310 |
| 15 | plumber | 2,137 |
| 16 | go-streams | 2,062 |
| 17 | vanus | 1,704 |
| 18 | akvorado | 1,699 |
| 19 | eventhorizon | 1,625 |
| 20 | bento | 1,549 |
| 21 | gnomock | 1,445 |
| 22 | openmeter | 1,455 |
| 23 | go-stash | 1,183 |
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