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24 alternatives to Kafbat UI

Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

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

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   Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.0 is out▲47

   Open-Source Web UI for managing Apache Kafka clusters - Release 1.0: Messages overhaul, editable ACLs · kafbat/kafka-ui

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Kafbat UI 1.1▲5

   Kafbat UI: open-source web ui for managing apache kafka

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   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 →

4. 4
   UI for Apache Kafka▲12

   Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   UI for Apache Kafka▲76

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

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

   Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging. - redpanda-data/console

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Zurau▲64

   Open source analytics web app to visualize key Kafka metrics

   2022 · its alternatives →

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   kubewall▲225

   A free and open-source GUI dashboard for Kubernetes

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Kibo UI▲306

   Advanced, open-source components for shadcn/ui

   2025 · kibo-ui.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Kafka Sprout – Web GUI for Your Kafka Clusters▲23

    :rocket: Web GUI for Kafka Cluster Management. Contribute to oslabs-beta/Kafka-Sprout development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    UI for Apache Kafka v0.3 released with major UI overhaul▲8

    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 →

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    SpringBoot web app for browsing Kafka topics▲26

    Kafka Web UI. Contribute to obsidiandynamics/kafdrop development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · 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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    UI for Apache Kafka v0.5 released with RBAC and serde plugins▲9

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

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    kafkaQ▲7

    An open source monitoring tool for Kafka applications

    2020 · 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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    UI for Apache Kafka v0.4 released with smart filters and live tailing▲5

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

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Live visualization of Kafka streams▲144

    2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →

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    Kanba▲332

    Open-source project management tool for modern teams

    2025 · kanba.co · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Kestra▲470

    All-in-one automation & orchestration platform

    2024 · kestra.io · its alternatives →

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    KafkaFix▲3

    An Open-source Kafka Cluster Management And Analytics GUI

    2021 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation▲386

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring▲101

    Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kaffia▲4

    Intuitive Kafka cluster monitoring

    2022 · kaffia.dev · its alternatives →

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