Akema
Read-only Kafka message inspection & analytics
Akema launched on November 2, 2026 with 67 votes, #44 of 690 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Read-only Kafka message inspector. Browse live topics, trap bad messages with CEL and chart them in your browser. Works with MSK, Event Hubs and Confluent Cloud.
Live Kafka inspection and in-browser analytics, without storing topic data. Akema is a read-only lens on the window you need: browse live messages, trap the ones that matter with CEL, and chart them with DuckDB in your browser. Nothing is written back to Kafka. A developer spends 30 to 90 minutes on a script, credentials and deserialization just to look at one payload. In Akema you see the key, headers, offset, partition, timestamp and decoded body the moment you connect, and a CEL trap finds the message you're after. A payload question answered in the UI, not a new consumer project. S3, Spark or a warehouse will answer a shape question hours later, and leave copies of production events…from akema.io
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