Kafkabrowser

Simple Vaadin application for browsing Kafka messages

Features

• message viewer (plain, pretty JSON and XML, HEX)
• search message by offset
• multiple Kafka clusters support
• filter messages in current view
• highlight text in message
• authentication SASL support to browse password protected topics

Usage

1. Edit Kafka clusters \src\main\webapp\appconf.xml
2. Check that your java version is >=1.8:

mvn --version

Unless change java_home

3. To compile the entire project, run

mvn install

4. To run the application

mvn jetty:run

5. Open in your browser this: http://localhost:8080/
6. If Snappy compression in topics is enabled set exec flag on tmp

  mount -o remount,exec /var/tmp/
  mount -o remount,exec /tmp/