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Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka

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Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka

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Hey HN, for those of you tired of running kafka-consumer-groups.sh and similar tools, here's a small real-time monitoring CLI tool for Apache Kafka, that displays consumer lag and event rates in a clean, top-like interface. You can quickly assess which consumers are lagging and when they will catch up.

I've made this to quickly assess the health of remote on-premises clusters which most of the time lack proper monitoring.

The tool can be found here: https://github.com/sivann/kafkatop

I'd be very interested to hear your feedback or any features you think would add value to this tool!

Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka
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Re: Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka

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This is nice. Will you also add the view of topics so I can replace kafdrop? A better kafdrop and on the terminal... priceless! Thanks

Thanks! you can list topics and also export ISR per partitions in json with kafkatop. As this is mostly a real-time monitor, what properties of topics would you be interested of monitoring? Would that be ISR % per topic perhaps?