The tool displays information, such as brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and lets you view messages. Kafdrop is a web UI for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer groups. (This is the default, but you can change it by adding -Dhttp.port= startup parameter.) target/universal/kafka-manager-x.x.x.x.zipĪfter it’s done starting, you can access it with your browser at port 9000. This can take a long time to complete (about 30 minutes on the first build, as it has to download a bunch of dependencies).

In the directory where you unzipped it, run. It uses the play framework, but it is installed and configured automatically (unlike Kafka web console that is discussed later). It also requires access to ZooKeeper nodes, so you might not be able to use it in some production environments, where ZooKeeper nodes are typically firewalled.įirst, download the zip distribution from the link above and unzip it.Įdit nf and change kafka-manager.zkhosts to one or more of your ZooKeeper hosts, for example kafka-manager.zkhosts='cloudera2:2181'. Unfortunately, you can't use it to browse messages. But, it's more of an administrative tool. It is capable of administrating multiple clusters it can show statistics on individual brokers or topics, such as messages per second, lag, and etc.

Kafka Manager is a web-based management system for Kafka developed at Yahoo. (Technically you can, but this would violate the licensing terms and put you and your employer at risk.) So, you can't really use it at work unless you pay for it. It allows you to create new topics or update existing ones, and you can even look at the messages in a topic or partition.Īlthough it is very useful, its UI seems somewhat old, and it lacks some monitoring features, such as topic lag. It can list brokers, topics, or consumers and their properties. It is a Windows program that can connect to a Kafka cluster and do all basic tasks. You may also like: A Kafka Tutorial for Everyone, no Matter Your Stage in Development. So, today, we will cover some GUI alternatives. Moreover, it is getting difficult to work with them when your clusters grow large, or when you have several clusters. But, those tools aren’t very convenient because they are not integrated into one tool, and you need to run a different tool for different tasks. Kafka itself comes with command line tools that can perform all necessary administrative tasks.

Using kafka tool create dc1 to dc2