Kafka Tool is a GUI application for managing and using Apache Kafka ® clusters. It provides an intuitive UI that allows one to quickly view objects within a Kafka cluster as well as the messages stored in the topics of the cluster. It contains features geared towards both developers and administrators. Some of the key features include
Quickly view all your Kafka clusters, including their brokers, topics and consumers
View contents of messages in your partitions and add new messages
View offsets of the consumers, including Apache Storm Kafka spout consumers
Show JSON and XML messages in a pretty-printed format
Add and drop topics plus other management features
Save individual messages from your partitions to local hard drive
Write your own plugins that allow you to view custom data formats
Kafka Tool runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS
Kafka Tool is free for personal use only. Any non-personal use, including commercial, educational and non-profit work is not permitted without purchasing a license. Non-personal use is allowed for evaluation purposes for 30 days following the download of Kafka Tool, after which you must purchase a valid license or remove the software.
