Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by germanosin » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka
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Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by epberry » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java.

Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web GUI? Obviously this is open source which is great.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by zorr » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

epberry wrote: post #2

Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web GUI? Obviously this is open source which is great.

At a first glance this seems to be an api written in Java using Spring Boot in a reactive style with Webflux. The api wraps the official Java Kafka client and some other libraries.

The frontend is a React app in Typescript.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by germanosin » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

epberry wrote: post #2

Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web GUI? Obviously this is open source which is great.

Hi, yes exactly. Backend is on Java + spring boot webflux, because of Kafka most mature client and frontend react + typescript.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by stillbourne » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

I use the vscode plugin. As a matter of fact I seem to be using vscode for more and more admin tasks including kube management.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by germanosin » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

epberry wrote: post #2

Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web GUI? Obviously this is open source which is great.

Btw I have an article comparing it with confluent web GUI https://towardsdatascience.com/overview-of-ui-tools-for-moni...

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by daniel-grigg » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by spenczar5 » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

germanosin wrote: post #6

epberry wrote: post #2

Looks pretty nice. The codebase is half typescript and half Java? Guessing that is because Kafka is written in Java. Another question: how might this compare to the Confluent web GUI? Obviously this is open source which is great.

Btw I have an article comparing it with confluent web GUI https://towardsdatascience.com/overview-of-ui-tools-for-moni...

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…

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by kkcorps » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:46 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka

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Post by faxmeyourcode » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2:54 PM UTC

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