KafkaHQ vs Kafka Sprout: What are the differences?

Developers describe KafkaHQ as "Kafka GUI for topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more". It is a Kafka GUI for topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more. It works with modern Kafka cluster. On the other hand, Kafka Sprout is detailed as "Web GUI for Kafka Cluster Management". It is a web GUI that helps you quickly start up Zookeeper and Kafka servers on your local machine without any code configuration. Easily view, manage, and configure your Kafka topics and brokers with a push of a button. It also displays relevant realtime metrics including Request Rate, Network I/O Rate, etc.

KafkaHQ and Kafka Sprout belong to "Kafka Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by KafkaHQ are:

• Works with modern Kafka cluster (1.0+)
• Connection on standard or ssl, sasl cluster
• Multi cluster

On the other hand, Kafka Sprout provides the following key features:

• Push to start Zookeeper and Kafka
• Quickly add and delete topics
• Set up Kafka brokers

KafkaHQ and Kafka Sprout are both open source tools. KafkaHQ with 1.85K GitHub stars and 280 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kafka Sprout with 396 GitHub stars and 14 GitHub forks.