Kafka Data Viewer

This tool is desktop UI Client for Kafka that provides ability to read and publish kafka records.

Description

Functionality includes setup of list necessary connections and connect particular Kafka cluster.

When connected you can use:

• Logging mode - allows to subscribe and listen for selected topics

• Read mode - allows to query particular topic

• Producer mode - allows to publish the message to specified topic

The application supports different message encodings, the currently supported:

• String

• GZIP

• Avro

Screenshots

Additional features

Application allows to list kafka consumer groups and detailed information about group.

Compatibility

Application is based on Kafka 2.0 binaries.

ZooKeeper connection is not supported anymore, as well as information about ZooKeeper connected clients.

Download

The read-to-use binary bundle can be downloaded at github releases page:

https://github.com/alshpak/kafka_data_viewer/releases

How to run

java -jar <jar_name> [-n defaultGroupName]

Java 11 support

The tool is implemented on JavaFX that is not part of Java 11 anymore.

In order to run it on Java 11 and you need to add JFX module in command line:

Download JavaFX SDK

Link to OpenJFX: https://openjfx.io/

Link to Download: https://gluonhq.com/products/javafx/

Run program with JavaFX module

java --module-path <path.to>/javafx-sdk-11/lib/ --add-modules=javafx.controls -jar <jar_name> [-n defaultGroupName]

The example on command line for windows:

java --module-path "C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk-11.0.2\lib" --add-modules=javafx.controls -jar kafka_data_viewer-all-<version>.jar