What is Kafdrop?
It is a web UI for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer groups. The tool displays information such as brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and lets you view messages.
Kafdrop is a tool in the Kafka Tools category of a tech stack.
Kafdrop is an open source tool with 5.8K GitHub stars and 873 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kafdrop's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kafdrop?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Kafdrop in their tech stacks, including Modanisa.com, Voicebridge, and Logistic Workspace.
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kafdrop.
Kafdrop Integrations
Kafdrop's Features
- View Kafka brokers — topic and partition assignments, and controller status
- View topics — partition count, replication status, and custom configuration
- Browse messages — JSON, plain text and Avro encoding
- View consumer groups — per-partition parked offsets, combined and per-partition lag
- Create new topics
- View ACLs
- Support for Azure Event Hubs
Kafdrop Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kafdrop?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
