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Dev tools · September 23, 2021

Monokl

A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka

Monokl launched on September 23, 2021 with 68 votes, #1,045 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Monokl is an open source downloadable desktop tool that works across all platforms and provides a simple way to visualize the performance of your Kafka cluster.

A monitoring and visualization tool for Apache Kafka. - Release Release v1.0.0 · oslabs-beta/monokl

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