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Kafka Manager

A tool for managing Apache Kafka, developed by Yahoo
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What is Kafka Manager?

This interface makes it easier to identify topics which are unevenly distributed across the cluster or have partition leaders unevenly distributed across the cluster. It supports management of multiple clusters, preferred replica election, replica re-assignment, and topic creation. It is also great for getting a quick bird’s eye view of the cluster.
Kafka Manager is a tool in the Kafka Tools category of a tech stack.
Kafka Manager is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kafka Manager's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Kafka Manager?

Companies
10 companies reportedly use Kafka Manager in their tech stacks, including Yahoo!, XYZ Technology, and Kaidee.

Developers
58 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kafka Manager.

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Pros of Kafka Manager
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Better Insights for Kafka cluster

Kafka Manager's Features

  • Manage multiple clusters
  • Easy inspection of cluster state (topics, brokers, replica distribution, partition distribution)
  • Run preferred replica election
  • Generate partition assignments (based on current state of cluster)
  • Run reassignment of partition (based on generated assignments)

Kafka Manager Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Kafka Manager?
Zookeeper
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
Kafka REST
It provides a RESTful interface to a Kafka cluster. It makes it easy to produce and consume messages, view the state of the cluster, and perform administrative actions without using the native Kafka protocol or clients. Examples of use cases include reporting data to Kafka from any frontend app built in any language, ingesting messages into a stream processing framework that doesn't yet support Kafka, and scripting administrative actions.
rdkafka
This gem is a modern Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka. It wraps the production-ready C client using the ffi gem and targets Kafka 1.0+ and Ruby 2.3+.
Kafka UI
It is a simple tool that makes your data flows observable, helps find and troubleshoot issues faster and deliver optimal performance. Its lightweight dashboard makes it easy to track key metrics of your Kafka clusters - Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Production, and Consumption.
Kowl
It is a web application that helps you to explore messages in your Apache Kafka cluster and get better insights on what is actually happening in your Kafka cluster in the most comfortable way.
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