Franz
A macOS client for Apache Kafka
Franz launched on November 21, 2022 with 13 votes, #1,205 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
Manage your Apache Kafka clusters from the comfort of your Mac. Browse through Kafka topics and records. Intelligently stream data to debug issues and publish new data directly to your topics. Quickly check the state of your consumer groups and manage consumer offsets and group membership.
Take control of your Kafka clusters with Franz, a native desktop client for Apache Kafka and Kafka-compatible brokers like RedPanda. Manage broker and topic configs, browse your data, configure consumer groups and more.
Browse through Kafka topics and records. Intelligently stream data to debug issues and publish new data directly to your topics. Quickly check the state of your consumer groups and manage consumer offsets and group membership. Compatible with alternative implementations like Amazon Managed Kafka IAM and Red Panda out of the box. Filter and process the data in your topics using a full Lua, programming environment with support for decoding JSON, Apache Avro, MessagePack and other formats. Leverage the Lua programming environment to aggregate and visualize data from yourfrom franz.defn.io
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Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka2024 · github.com · ▲45This 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…
UI for Apache Kafka2021 · github.com · ▲158Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.


Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX2020 · github.com · ▲164Redpanda 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

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