CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool etc.... why are there so many attempts to build a kafka UI? Does each one have its own use case? I'd think that something as large as "Kafka" in the software ecosystem would have a goto defacto standard UI for managing it.
Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
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Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#12Our company uses https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop it's FOSS. It can also handle AVRO and PROTOBUF messages.
Does your company use both Avro and Protobuf for message serialization? Most places tend to standardize with one or the other and I’m wondering if there is a use case for both.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#13CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool etc.... why are there so many attempts to build a kafka UI? Does each one have its own use case? I'd think that something as large as "Kafka" in the software ecosystem would have a goto defacto standard UI for managing it.
You are absolutely right, there are many options which we looked at before we began with the project. None of existing solutions provided the features we needed:
Authentication and authorization to meet our compliance needs, a satisfactory UI/UX, message streaming with JavaScript filters and a couple more features. We thought we can do better and just started hacking something. There's a lot more to come. I'll create a blog post describing in more detail why we've created Kowl.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#14I use Streams Messenging Manager supports schema registry for avro. Also includes alerts and many metrics and stats
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#15I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#16I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
This is amazing, thanks for pointing me to it. I googled around for better tooling but apart from a few "playing around with golang/rust"-cli tools I didn't find anything with better UX than the abysmal shell script tooling provided with Kafka.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#17Our company uses https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop it's FOSS. It can also handle AVRO and PROTOBUF messages.
Does your company use both Avro and Protobuf for message serialization? Most places tend to standardize with one or the other and I’m wondering if there is a use case for both.
I think if you use open source stuff you will find a lot of Avro, like Debezium. Supporting both so you get best of in-house and external makes sense to me.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#18I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
Slightly off topic but for the shell in the example what did they export PS1 to get the nice looking solid background color for the host name and current working directory?
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#19Very nice, I think we’ll give it a shot on our test cluster tomorrow, we been looking for something like this, both for ourself, but also for a customer.
Re: Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
#20I will stick to using https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl in the shell.
Slightly off topic but for the shell in the example what did they export PS1 to get the nice looking solid background color for the host name and current working directory?
Looks like some type of powerline plugin for their shell