Kowl vs KafkaCenter: What are the differences?

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; KafkaCenter: A unified one-stop platform for Kafka cluster management and maintenance. It is a unified one-stop platform for Kafka cluster management and maintenance, producer / consumer monitoring, and use of ecological components.

Kowl and KafkaCenter belong to "Kafka Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kowl are:

• Supports Kafka Clusters newer than v1.0+
• Topic overview
• Show disk usage per topic or per broker

On the other hand, KafkaCenter provides the following key features:

• View kafka cluster list and monitoring information
• Users can view their own topics in this module, apply for new topics, mock and consumption data
• Users can view the production and consumption of topics in this module, and set warning information for consumption delays

KafkaCenter is an open source tool with 758 GitHub stars and 103 GitHub forks. Here's a link to KafkaCenter's open source repository on GitHub.