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24 alternatives to Lenses

Apache Kafka made easy

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lenses launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Lenses for Apache Kafka▲14

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

   2017 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   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 →

3. 3
   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 →

4. 4LV
   Live visualization of Kafka streams▲144

   2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   DB Lens▲135

   Explore data, execute SQL, metrics, disk usage & more

   2021 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   UI for Apache Kafka▲76

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

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go▲105

   Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go. - lovoo/goka

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Upstash▲233

   Serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka

   2022 · upstash.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Kafka Socks▲81

   An easy-to-use, lightweight KafkaJS to Socket.io library

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Monokl▲68

    A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Lens▲320

    10x your engagement rate during Zoom meetings

    2023 · getlens.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Streambased▲114

    Analytics service for Kafka

    2024 · streambased.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    UI for Apache Kafka▲12

    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    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 →

15. 15
    Naiad Lens▲100

    Stop coding blind. See every flow in one click.

    2025 · naiadai.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing▲77

    Hello Everyone! We built SQLFlow as a lightweight stream processing engine. We leverage DuckDB as the stream processing engine, which gives SQLFlow the ability to process 10's of thousands of messages a second using ~250MiB of memory! DuckDB also supports a rich ecosystem of sinks and connectors! https://sql-flow.com/docs/category/tutorials/ https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow We were tired of running JVM's for simple stream processing, and also of bespoke one off stream processors I would love your feedback, criticisms and/or…

    Dec 2025 · sql-flow.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    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 →

18. 18
    SkaleSafe▲57

    A Kubernetes visualizer focused on cluster scaling metrics

    2023 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Schema Lens▲10

    Visualize and manage your database schemas

    2025 · schema-lens.vercel.app · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Wafka▲67

    Apache Kafka over the web

    2020 · josephp91.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    IOpipe▲107

    Application operations platform for serverless

    2017 · iopipe.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse▲78

    Hi HN! We are Ashish and Armend, founders of GlassFlow. We just launched our open-source streaming ETL that deduplicates and joins Kafka streams before ingesting them to ClickHouse https://github.com/glassflow/clickhouse-etl Why we built this: Dedup with batch data is straightforward. You load the data into a temporary table. Then, find only the latest versions of the record through hashes or keys and keep them. After that, move the clean data into your main table. But have you tried this with streaming data? Users of our prev product were running real-time analytics…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Lambda Lens▲12

    Developer Tool for AWS Lambda Performance Optimization

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Open-source serverless security lake powered by Rust + Apache Iceberg▲63

    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS - matanolabs/matano

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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