What is Kafdrop?
It is a web UI for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer groups. The tool displays information such as brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and lets you view messages.
Kafdrop is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.
Key Features
View Kafka brokers — topic and partition assignments, and controller statusView topics — partition count, replication status, and custom configurationBrowse messages — JSON, plain text and Avro encodingView consumer groups — per-partition parked offsets, combined and per-partition lagCreate new topicsView ACLsSupport for Azure Event Hubs
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Kafdrop Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kafdrop?
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 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+.
