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24 alternatives to Kafma – a desktop Kafka GUI client for debugging

Kafma is a Kafka GUI client and desktop IDE. Debug fast, close the gap between prod and dev. Intuitive. Simple. Elegant.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    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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    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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    This is the source code to Franz, a native desktop client for Apache Kafka I've been working on for the past ~three years or so. Around 2021, I started using Kafka at a startup and I didn't like any of the clients that were available at the time, so I decided to build my own in my spare time[1]. I wanted a solid native experience on the Mac that wasn't web based and didn't require any Docker containers to run. A few months ago, I decided to make the code source-available[2] in part because I like the idea of my users being able to see the code they're running and in part because I want to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I want to share with you an IntelliJ plugin I have developed and launched. Based on my own needs, I wanted a plugin that monitors my coding practices and gives me stats about them in order for me to improve on them. So, here is Kasama: An IDE plugin that works like a sport fitness tracker, gathering data on: - your coding sessions, i.e. how long are you active in the IDE and for which project - your activity in different modules, and how the activity is split between test code and prod code - your version control (git) interactions: how often you commit, the lifespan your branches,…

    2024 · plugins.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    KloudMate▲279

    Logs, metrics, and traces in one platform. KloudMate helps engineers find and fix issues fast. Ask the built-in AI assistant to help track down the cause.

    2023 · kloudmate.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    a modern and practical kafka gui client 💕🎉

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Grammarly for programmers

    2023 · kodezi.com · its alternatives →

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    Desktop UI for Kafka

    2021 · its alternatives →

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

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kafka-based Job Queue for Python. Contribute to joowani/kq development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Conduktor▲169

    Collaborative Kafka development platform

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Kalker is a calculator that supports user-defined variables, functions, ambiguous syntax, differentiation and integration. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and in web browsers (with WebAssembly).

    2021 · kalk.strct.net · its alternatives →

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    Kasama▲135

    Track your IDE coding habits

    2024 · plugins.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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    :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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    Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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