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The name of the project appears to be "Karafka Web", but "Karafka Web UI" (without "the") would only make sense grammatically if that is the name of the project. I would recommend either adding "The" or else dropping "UI" (as I did). Dropping "UI" makes the following use of "The Web UI" not seem so repetetive as it would if it were immediately following "The Karafka Web UI". Another alternative would be changing the project name to "Karafka Web UI".

All of the Karafka ecosystem components' documentation, including the Web UI, can be found here.

It is possible (though not very likely) that I have misunderstood the intention of the original form of this sentence. My changes reflect an understanding of it saying that the documentation for all components (plural) within the Karafka ecosystem can be found at the given URL.

In any grammar "correction" (or suggestion of a change) there is a risk of misunderstanding the original intent. For example, I would need more information on what is meant by "Real-time topics lag awareness" to be 100% certain that my change is right, but I think you likely want to say "Real-time topic lag awareness". In English adjectives are not normally pluralized, so my reading of this is that "topic" is the adjective describing "lag", and Karafka gives you monitoring tools to detect topic lag in real time. Since I'm not a Kafka or Karafka user (yet?) I don't know what topic lag is (and therefore I don't know with 100% certainty that I'm parsing the grammar correctly). But I'm relatively confident that the change I'm proposing is appropriate. Of course always feel free to correct me if I'm misunderstanding anything.

"the data produced to Kafka topics" is grammatically unconventional. Do you mean "produced by"? "produced for"? "sent to"? "produced and sent to"? I wasn't sure how to change that, so I left it as-is, following the principle to "first do no harm".

The name of the project appears to be "Karafka Web", but "Karafka Web UI" (without "the") would only make sense grammatically if that is the name of the project.  I would recommend either adding "The" or else dropping "UI" (as I did). Dropping "UI" makes the following use of "The Web UI" not seem so repetetive as it would if it were immediately following "The Karafka Web UI".  Another alternative would be changing the project name to "Karafka Web UI". 


> All of the Karafka ecosystem components' documentation, including the Web UI, can be found [here](https://karafka.io/docs/#web-ui).

It is possible (though not very likely) that I have misunderstood the intention of the original form of this sentence.  My changes reflect an understanding of it saying that the documentation for all components (plural) within the Karafka ecosystem can be found at the given URL. 


In any grammar "correction" (or suggestion of a change) there is a risk of misunderstanding the original intent.  For example, I would need more information on what is meant by "Real-time topics lag awareness" to be 100% certain that my change is right, but I think you likely want to say "Real-time topic lag awareness".  In English adjectives are not normally pluralized, so my reading of this is that "topic" is the adjective describing "lag", and Karafka gives you monitoring tools to detect topic lag in real time.  Since I'm not a Kafka or Karafka user (yet?)  I don't know what topic lag is (and therefore I don't know with 100% certainty that I'm parsing the grammar correctly). But I'm relatively confident that the change I'm proposing is appropriate.  Of course always feel free to correct me if I'm misunderstanding anything.

"the data produced to Kafka topics" is grammatically unconventional. Do you mean "produced by"?  "produced for"? "sent to"? "produced and sent to"?   I wasn't sure how to change that, so I left it as-is, following the principle to "first do no harm".  

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Pull Request Overview

This PR improves the grammar and readability of the README.md file for the Karafka Web project. The changes focus on grammatical corrections, consistent naming, and clearer phrasing throughout the documentation.

  • Updates project name from "Karafka Web UI" to "Karafka Web" for consistency
  • Corrects grammatical issues including apostrophe placement, article usage, and pluralization
  • Improves clarity of feature descriptions in the Enhanced Web UI section

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> [!IMPORTANT]
> All of Karafka ecosystems components documentation, including the Web UI, can be found [here](https://karafka.io/docs/#web-ui).
> All of the Karafka ecosystem components' documentation, including the Web UI, can be found [here](https://karafka.io/docs/#web-ui).
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I would rephrase it to be more clear on what and where is available:

"Documentation for all ecosystem components, including the Web UI, is available in the [Karafka framework docs Wiki] (#757)."

@mensfeld are you sure you want to link specifically to the Web UI section of the Wiki here? I would go with the Wik home page link: https://karafka.io/docs/

## Getting started

Karafka Web UI documentation is part of the Karafka framework documentation and can be found [here](https://karafka.io/docs).
The Karafka Web UI documentation is part of the Karafka framework documentation and can be found [here](https://karafka.io/docs).
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This is the location, where the direct link to https://karafka.io/docs/#web-ui seems adequate.
I would rephrase the introductory sentence:

To get started with the Karafka Web UI, see the [Web UI] (https://karafka.io/docs/#web-ui) chapter of the Karafka documentation Wiki.

Avoid "here".

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Karafka Web UI is a user interface for the [Karafka framework](https://github.com/karafka/karafka). The Web UI provides a convenient way for developers to monitor and manage their Karafka-based applications, without the need to use the command line or third party software.
Karafka Web is a user interface for the [Karafka framework](https://github.com/karafka/karafka). The Web UI provides a convenient way for developers to monitor and manage their Karafka-based applications, without the need to use the command line or third party software.
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I added minor tweaks. Final version:

Karafka Web UI is a web-based interface for the [Karafka framework] (https://github.com/karafka/karafka). The Web UI provides a convenient way for developers to monitor and manage their Kafka-based applications, eliminating the need to use command-line tools or third-party software.

Karafka Web UI is a user interface for the [Karafka framework](https://github.com/karafka/karafka). The Web UI provides a convenient way for developers to monitor and manage their Karafka-based applications, without the need to use the command line or third party software.
Karafka Web is a user interface for the [Karafka framework](https://github.com/karafka/karafka). The Web UI provides a convenient way for developers to monitor and manage their Karafka-based applications, without the need to use the command line or third party software.

It allows for easy access to various metrics, such as the number of messages consumed, the number of errors, and the number of consumers operating. It also provides a way to view the different Kafka topics, consumers, and groups that are being used by the application.
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Please replace this part with the following edited paragraph:

It provides easy access to various metrics, including the number of messages consumed, the number of errors, and the number of consumers in operation. It also provides a way to view the various Kafka topics, consumers, and groups used by the application.

## Karafka Pro Enhanced Web UI

The Enhanced Web UI, aside from all the features from the OSS version, also offers additional features and capabilities not available in the free version, making it a better option for those looking for more robust monitoring and management capabilities for their Karafka applications. Some of the key benefits of the Enhanced Web UI version include the following:
The Enhanced Web UI, aside from all the features of the OSS version, also offers additional features and capabilities not available in the free version, making it a better option for those looking for more robust monitoring and management capabilities for their Karafka applications. Some of the key benefits of the Enhanced Web UI version include the following:
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I added minor tweaks below:Replace the whole part with the following content:

The Enhanced Web UI, in addition to all the features from the OSS version, also offers additional features and capabilities not available in the free version, making it a more robust option for those seeking enhanced monitoring and management capabilities for their Karafka applications. Some of the key benefits of the Enhanced Web UI version include the following:

  • Real-time and historical processing and utilization metrics
  • Real-time topics lag awareness
  • Enhanced consumer utilization metrics providing much better insights into process and resource utilization
  • Consumer process inspection to quickly analyze the state of a given consuming process
  • Consumer jobs inspection to view currently running jobs on a per-process basis
  • A health dashboard containing general consumption overview information
  • Data Explorer allowing for viewing and exploring the data produced to Kafka topics and understanding the routing table and deserializing data before it is displayed
  • Enhanced error reporting allowing for backtrace inspection and providing multi-partition support
  • DLQ / Dead insights allowing navigation through DLQ topics and messages dispatched

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@mensfeld Please, include the content from my comments into the next Readme file version.

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