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akhq
Kafka GUI for Apache Kafka to manage topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more...
- If a schema registry uses a self-signed certificate (or one signed by a corporation's CA), there's no way to pass the certificate through a config or skip validation (Kowl's relevant config [3]). As it is, you get a 500 error in the API call, but the UI doesn't show an error
Overall, it seems like a fair bit of thought went into this! But there are a few quirks that make it very tough to use in a corporate environment with (perhaps excessively) large Kafka clusters with hundreds/thousands of topics, or secured with internal certificates
1. https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/master/kafka-ui-a...
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 forced to rename it.
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 memory usage), viewing and filtering of messages, support for schema registry, comes with a Docker image, usable locally and Helm chart for Kubernetes.
We substituted it with AKHQ https://akhq.io/ , which is miles ahead of anything I've seen. The main issue with it are the interesting UX decisions that requires learning. For example, a lot of links require a double click, but isn't a common behavior in Web Apps.