Kafka Owl is a Web UI which helps you to explore messages in your cluster's topics in the most comfortable way.
- Supports Kafka 1.0.0+
- Fetch messages from Kafka Topics so that they can be comfortably previewed (JSON, XML, Text, Binary)
- Show Topic configuration with highlighted rows which have been modified
- List all Topics' Low & High Watermarks
- Performant & lightweight (e. g. fetching messages from one or across multiple partitions takes a few milliseconds)
- Consumer group overview along with their members, member state & partition assignments
- Add avro support for deserializing messages (key+value)
- Authentication layer with SSO support
- Editing features such as editing consumer group offsets
- ACL support for listing/editing/creating/deleting topics, consumer groups, ...
Kubernetes users may want to use the Helm chart to deploy Kafka owl: https:/kafka-owl/helm-chart
| Argument | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| --server.graceful-shutdown-timeout | Timeout for graceful shutdowns | 30s |
| --server.http.listen-port | HTTP server listen port | 80 |
| --server.http.read-timeout | Read timeout for HTTP server | 30s |
| --server.http.write-timeout | Write timeout for HTTP server | 30s |
| --server.http.idle-timeout | Idle timeout for HTTP server | 120s |
| --logging.level | Log granularity (debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic) | info |
| --logging.print-access-logs | Whether or not to print access log for each HTTP invocation | false |
| --kafka.brokers | Array of broker addresses, delimited by comma (e. g. "kafka-1:9092, kafka-2:9092") | (No default) |
| --kafka.client-id | ClientID to identify the consumer | "kafka-owl" |
| --kafka.sasl.enabled | Bool to enable/disable SASL authentication (only SASL_PLAINTEXT is supported) | false |
| --kafka.sasl.use-handshake | Whether or not to send the Kafka SASL handshake first | true |
| --kafka.sasl.username | SASL Username | (No default) |
| --kafka.sasl.password | SASL Password | (No default) |
| --kafka.tls.enabled | Whether or not to use TLS when connecting to the broker | false |
| --kafka.tls.ca-file-path | Path to the TLS CA file | (No default) |
| --kafka.tls.key-file-path | Path to the TLS key file | (No default) |
| --kafka.tls.cert-file-path | Path to the TLS cert file | (No default) |
| --kafka.tls.insecure-skip-verify | If true, TLS accepts any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate. | false |
| --kafka.tls.passphrase | Passphrase to decrypt the TLS key (leave empty for unencrypted key files) | (No default) |
| --owl.topics.blacklist | Topics blacklist (comma separated) to configure access restrictions | (No default) |