Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to AxonOps

Apache Cassandra® & Kafka® monitoring and management

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AxonOps launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   UI for Apache Kafka▲158

   Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Monokl▲68

   A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Wafka▲67

   Apache Kafka over the web

   2020 · josephp91.github.io · its alternatives →

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   New Beautiful Desktop and Web UI/Monitoring for Apache Kafka+Kinesis▲26

   Hey folks, I'm super excited to announce the release of a new UI for Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda and Kinesis that focuses on Teams and Data Mesh. (Note: the desktop version is also very popular with individual developers!) Why is this important? Because providing a solution that can be used by both IT and business (non-technical) users is essential when building applications that process business data. Of course, we are mainly developers working on Kadeck. So you won't miss any of the features you need to troubleshoot and monitor Kafka and your applications. In fact, we have put a lot…

   2023 · kadeck.com · its alternatives →

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   Franz▲13

   A macOS client for Apache Kafka

   2022 · franz.defn.io · its alternatives →

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   Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers▲148

   Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   UI for Apache Kafka▲76

   Open-source, versatile, fast and lightweight UI for Kafka

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Live visualization of Kafka streams▲144

   2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →

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   Instaclustr, managed Cassandra hosting on AWS▲5

   NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform and support for open source technologies. Apache Kafka®, Apache Cassandra®, OpenSearch®, PostgreSQL®, Cadence, Apache Spark™, and Valkey™.

   2012 · instaclustr.com · its alternatives →

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    Lenses for Apache Kafka▲14

    Powerful, SQL-enabled streaming platform for Apache Kafka®.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Kerno▲132

    Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…

    Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →

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    Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka▲164

    kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style! - sauljabin/kaskade

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka▲5

    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…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Helios▲75

    Open-source monitoring tool for AWS serverless applications

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Upstash▲233

    Serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka

    2022 · upstash.com · its alternatives →

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    FluxiStream▲20

    A customizable Kafka metrics observability dashboard

    2024 · streamforgeobs.com · its alternatives →

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    Uber's new publicly available RPC Kafka repository▲13

    Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies. uForwarder aims to address several pain points while using Apache Kafka for pub-sub message queueing at scale, including partition scalability and head-of-line blocking. - uber/uForwarder

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Devtron▲174

    Kubernetes adoption at warp speed

    2023 · devtron.ai · its alternatives →

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    kafkaQ▲7

    An open source monitoring tool for Kafka applications

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    How to gain observability across Kafka topics and Elasticsearch▲18

    How to connect Lenses to your Kafka and Elasticsearch environment for unified data observability

    2020 · lenses.io · its alternatives →

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    Chronos▲9

    Open Source Monitoring Tool

    2025 · chronoslany.com · its alternatives →

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    AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds▲58

    Diskless Kafka® on S3. 10x Cost-Effective. No Cross-AZ Traffic Cost. Autoscale in seconds. Single-digit ms latency. Multi-AZ Availability. - AutoMQ/automq

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    UI for Apache Kafka▲12

    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kafkare▲3

    A system monitoring tool for Kafka.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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