Alternatives

Products that do what How to gain observability across Kafka topics and Elasticsearch does

1. 1KA
   Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX▲164

   2020 · github.com

2. 2
   OpenObserve▲305

   AI-native, open-source Datadog alternative

   Mar 2026

3. 3DA
   Dejavu – a modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch▲33

   2016 · appbaseio.github.io

4. 4KA
   Kubespy, a CLI tool for observing Kubernetes resources in real time▲99

   2018 · github.com

5. 5GF
   GUI for Data Modeling with Elasticsearch▲74

   2016 · github.com

6. 6GS
   Golang service to read records from kafka and write to elasticsearch▲12

   2018 · github.com

7. 7KA
   KafkaLite – A simple message broker inspired by Kafka▲39

   2015 · github.com

8. 8LV
   Live visualization of Kafka streams▲144

   2016 · alooma.com

9. 9GD
   Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go▲105

   2017 · github.com

10. 10HA
    Hasura – A Postgres BaaS and Kubernetes PaaS on Your Own Infrastructure▲259

    2017 · hasura.io

11. 11QW
    Quepid workbench for tuning Solr and Elasticsearch relevance▲7

    2019 · github.com

12. 12SE
    Supergiant Elasticsearch – Auto-Scalable and Automated ES DevOps▲22

    2016 · qbox.io

13. 13KK
    KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases▲108

    2018 · kubedb.com

14. 14KA
    Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS▲194

    2017 · github.com

15. 15SR
    Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch▲139

    2016 · github.com

16. 16PI
    Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF▲108

    2020 · pixielabs.ai

17. 17KS
    KQ – Simple Job Queue for Python Using Kafka▲116

    2016 · github.com

18. 18HA
    HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes▲99

    2020 · github.com

19. 19LA
    Logtrail – A Kibana plugin for logs that clones the Papertrail UI▲65

    2016 · github.com

20. 20IW
    I wrote a book about Elasticsearch▲66

    2021 · elasticsearchbook.com

21. 21D1
    Dejavu 1.0 – An open-source data browser for Elasticsearch▲9

    2017 · github.com

22. 22KT
    Kafka to Google Big Query Persistence Service▲11

    2019 · github.com

23. 23MA
    Mirage – An interactive query explorer for Elasticsearch▲6

    2016 · github.com

24. 24KK
    Krucible – Kubernetes clusters for testing and development▲59

    2020 · usekrucible.com

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