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Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by germanosin »

spushkarev wrote: post #19
germanosin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, This fully support AWS MSK including AWS IAM authentication, Glue schema registry and AWS Kafka Connect

Nice. Is there are documentation on how to set it up for MSK?

You could start with documentation here https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/master/guides/AWS.... Feel free to create an issue if you have any questions.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by tyingq »

germanosin wrote: post #20
spenczar5 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should have mentioned that you work at Provectus in this article. Feels pretty sneaky to claim to do an impartial review, but provide no negative critique of the one made by your company…

This is mentioned in my medium profile. If you think that my comparison is not objective feel free to mention it on comment there)

For example, it seems a bit odd that all of your "no" answers in a feature matrix are labelled "roadmap", but every other tool just gets "no".

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by vosper »

KptMarchewa wrote: post #24
kkcorps wrote: post #9

https://lenses.io/ Kafka UI is pretty solid. Nice to see an open source alternative here.

Can't get over the amount of corporate memphis on that page.

> corporate memphis

Links for the lazy. The GP page (https://lenses.io) certainly has a lot of good examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

https://t-artmagazine.com/what-is-corporate-memphis-and-why-...

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by agons »

germanosin wrote: post #20
spenczar5 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should have mentioned that you work at Provectus in this article. Feels pretty sneaky to claim to do an impartial review, but provide no negative critique of the one made by your company…

This is mentioned in my medium profile. If you think that my comparison is not objective feel free to mention it on comment there)

> feel free to drive engagement on my post

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by andrenotgiant »

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #10

We use Kafdrop for viewing topics/messages/info and it's really nice. It's read-only though, so if you need to configure a topic or push a message you have to use something else. https://github.com/HomeAdvisor/Kafdrop

This is the more up-to-date repo: https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop

Kafdrop is great, especially if you're already running everything else in Docker, just add a few lines to your docker-compose and get a free web UI for troubleshooting/introspecting.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by dillon »

Where I work we use Confluent Cloud who has their own proprietary UI. I've always found it to be lacking, hard to use and not very good. We substituted it with AKHQ https://akhq.io/ , which is miles ahead of anything I've seen. The main issue with it are the interesting UX decisions that requires learning. For example, a lot of links require a double click, which isn't a common behavior in Web Apps. Besides that, it's absolutely wonderful and goes beyond just Kafka. We use Kafka Connect very heavily and AKHQ seems to implement the full CRUD for Connect.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by anVlad11 »

daniel-grigg wrote: post #7

Neat! Just be wary around licensing, we’ve been using a similar management tool for a couple years https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK which was originally Kafka manager but they were forced to rename it.

There was a whole wave of renamings in the past two years, it looked like Apache Foundation just carpet bombed everything with "Kafka" in the name.
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