What is 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.
Kowl is a tool in the Kafka Tools category of a tech stack.
Kowl is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kowl's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kowl?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Kowl in their tech stacks, including Modanisa.com, Logistiq, and Gowit.
Developers
7 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kowl.
Kowl Integrations
Kowl's Features
- Supports Kafka Clusters newer than v1.0+
- Topic overview
- Show disk usage per topic or per broker
- List all consumer groups of a given topic
- List topic configuration
- Message viewer
- Avro, JSON, XML, ASCII and binary support
- Search specific message using any filters written in JavaScript
- Consumer group lag monitoring
- Very good UI & UX
Kowl Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kowl?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
