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24 alternatives to UI for Apache Kafka

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

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. UI for Apache Kafka launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1UF
   UI for Apache Kafka▲158

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   UI for Apache Kafka▲12

   Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

   2021 · its alternatives →

3. 3KA
   Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX▲164

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4KU
   Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.0 is out▲47

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Kafbat UI▲14

   Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

   2024 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Kafbat UI 1.1▲5

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

   2025 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Zurau▲64

   Open source analytics web app to visualize key Kafka metrics

   2022 · its alternatives →

8. 8KA
   Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka▲164

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9UF
   UI for Apache Kafka v0.3 released with major UI overhaul▲8

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10UF
    UI for Apache Kafka v0.5 released with RBAC and serde plugins▲9

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11NB
    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 →

12. 12
    Monokl▲68

    A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

    2021 · its alternatives →

13. 13UF
    UI for Apache Kafka v0.4 released with smart filters and live tailing▲5

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14K0
    Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers▲148

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15KS
    Kafka Sprout – Web GUI for Your Kafka Clusters▲23

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    kubewall▲225

    A free and open-source GUI dashboard for Kubernetes

    2024 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Trench▲281

    Open source analytics infrastructure

    2024 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Middleware▲257

    Open-source DORA metrics for software engineering teams

    2024 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Kibo UI▲313

    Advanced, open-source components for shadcn/ui

    2025 · kibo-ui.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Kafka Socks▲81

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

    2021 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Streambased▲114

    Analytics service for Kafka

    2024 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    KafkaFix▲3

    An Open-source Kafka Cluster Management And Analytics GUI

    2021 · its alternatives →

23. 23FA
    Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka▲45

    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 →

24. 24DF
    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 →

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