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24 alternatives to Xeotek KaDeck Kafka UI

A Kafka UI, topic browser and monitoring solution.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Xeotek KaDeck Kafka UI launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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

    2023 · 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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    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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    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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    Monokl▲68

    A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

    2021 · 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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    Kafka Web UI. Contribute to obsidiandynamics/kafdrop development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · 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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    Franz▲13

    A macOS client for Apache Kafka

    2022 · franz.defn.io · 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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    kafkaQ▲7

    An open source monitoring tool for Kafka applications

    2020 · 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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    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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    Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management

    2024 · github.com · 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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    :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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    Conduktor▲169

    Collaborative Kafka development platform

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Wafka▲67

    Apache Kafka over the web

    2020 · josephp91.github.io · its alternatives →

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    🦭 Distributed log streaming engine built from first principles - nubskr/walrus

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kafkai▲168

    Fully unique and readable content generated by AI

    2020 · kafkai.com · its alternatives →

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    A system monitoring tool for Kafka.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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