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Kafka Sprout vs Kowl: What are the differences?
Kafka Sprout: 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; Kowl: An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX. 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.
Kafka Sprout and Kowl can be primarily classified as "Kafka" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kafka Sprout are:
- Push to start Zookeeper and Kafka
- Quickly add and delete topics
- Set up Kafka brokers
On the other hand, Kowl provides the following key features:
- Supports Kafka Clusters newer than v1.0+
- Topic overview
- Show disk usage per topic or per broker
Kafka Sprout and Kowl are both open source tools. Kowl with 1.01K GitHub stars and 37 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kafka Sprout with 396 GitHub stars and 14 GitHub forks.
