Kafka REST vs Kowl
Overview
Share your Stack
Help developers discover the tools you use. Get visibility for your team's tech choices and contribute to the community's knowledge.
CLI (Node.js)
Manual
Detailed Comparison
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. | 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. |
Confluent REST Proxy for Kafka;
Easy to produce and consume messages;
View the state of the cluster | 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 |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 131 | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 663 | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 50 | Stacks 12 |
Followers 2 | Followers 17 |
Votes 0 | Votes 0 |
Integrations | |
| No integrations available | |
What are some alternatives to Kafka REST, Kowl?
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.
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.
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.
KafkaHQ
It is a Kafka GUI for topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more. It works with modern Kafka cluster.
Lenses
It is a simple and secure self service DataOps platform, to operate with confidence on Apache Kafka & Kubernetes.
DoctorKafka
DoctorKafka can automatically detect broker failure and reassign the workload on the failed nodes to other nodes. DoctorKafka can also perform load balancing based on topic partitions's network usage, and makes sure that broker network usage does not exceed the defined settings.
KafkaCenter
It is a unified one-stop platform for Kafka cluster management and maintenance, producer / consumer monitoring, and use of ecological components.
Kattlo CLI
It is for enterprises that need a stable way to change Apache Kafka configurations. It maintains the configuration and avoids drifts.
Monokl
It is an open source downloadable desktop tool that works across all platforms and provides a simple way to visualize the performance of your Kafka cluster.
