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24 alternatives to kafkaQ

An open source monitoring tool for Kafka applications

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. kafkaQ launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   UI for Apache Kafka▲76

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

   2023 · its alternatives →

2. 2UF
   UI for Apache Kafka▲158

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Zurau▲64

   Open source analytics web app to visualize key Kafka metrics

   2022 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Monokl▲68

   A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

   2021 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   UI for Apache Kafka▲12

   Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

   2021 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Trench▲281

   Open source analytics infrastructure

   2024 · trench.dev · its alternatives →

7. 7KA
   Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX▲164

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   KafkaFix▲3

   An Open-source Kafka Cluster Management And Analytics GUI

   2021 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Kafkare▲3

   A system monitoring tool for Kafka.

   2021 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Kafbat UI▲14

    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2024 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Komiser▲386

    Open-source cloud environment inspector

    2023 · its alternatives →

12. 12KS
    Kafka Sprout – Web GUI for Your Kafka Clusters▲23

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Wafka▲67

    Apache Kafka over the web

    2020 · its alternatives →

14. 14K0
    Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers▲148

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Radar▲399

    The missing open-source Kubernetes UI

    May 2026 · radarhq.io · its alternatives →

16. 16KU
    Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.0 is out▲47

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17NB
    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 →

18. 18
    Free Monitoring Suite by WebGazer▲338

    Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs

    2024 · webgazer.io · its alternatives →

19. 19LV
    Live visualization of Kafka streams▲144

    2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Helios▲75

    Open-source monitoring tool for AWS serverless applications

    2021 · its alternatives →

21. 21TO
    Trench – Open-source analytics infrastructure▲155

    Hey HN! I want to share a new open source project I've been working on called Trench (https://trench.dev). It's open source analytics infrastructure for tracking events, page views, and identifying users, and it's built on top of ClickHouse and Kafka. https://github.com/frigadehq/trench I built Trench because the Postgres table we used for tracking events at our startup (http://frigade.com/) was getting expensive and becoming a performance bottleneck as we scaled to millions of end users. Many companies run into the same problem as us (e.g.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22BL
    Broker-less simulation and mocking for Kafka▲36

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    FluxiStream▲20

    A customizable Kafka metrics observability dashboard

    2024 · streamforgeobs.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AO
    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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