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Kowl vs Kafdrop: What are the differences?

Kowl: An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX. It is a web application that helps you to explore messages in your Apache Kafka cluster and get better insights on what is actually happening in your Kafka cluster in the most comfortable way; Kafdrop: A web UI for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer groups. 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.

Kowl and Kafdrop can be primarily classified as "Kafka" tools.

Some of the features offered by Kowl are:

Supports Kafka Clusters newer than v1.0+
Topic overview
Show disk usage per topic or per broker

On the other hand, Kafdrop provides the following key 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

Kafdrop is an open source tool with 1.34K GitHub stars and 202 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kafdrop's open source repository on GitHub.

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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.

What is Kowl?

It is a web application that helps you to explore messages in your Apache Kafka cluster and get better insights on what is actually happening in your Kafka cluster in the most comfortable way.

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What are some alternatives to Kafdrop and Kowl?

Kafka Manager

This interface makes it easier to identify topics which are unevenly distributed across the cluster or have partition leaders unevenly distributed across the cluster. It supports management of multiple clusters, preferred replica election, replica re-assignment, and topic creation. It is also great for getting a quick bird’s eye view of the cluster.

rdkafka

This gem is a modern Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka. It wraps the production-ready C client using the ffi gem and targets Kafka 1.0+ and Ruby 2.3+.

Kafka UI

It is a simple tool that makes your data flows observable, helps find and troubleshoot issues faster and deliver optimal performance. Its lightweight dashboard makes it easy to track key metrics of your Kafka clusters - Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Production, and Consumption.

KafkaHQ

It is a Kafka GUI for topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more. It works with modern Kafka cluster.

KafkaCenter

It is a unified one-stop platform for Kafka cluster management and maintenance, producer / consumer monitoring, and use of ecological components.

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