Kafka Viewer

Kafka Viewer repository

Motivation

This tool was developed as simple and user-friendly Kafka topics viewer. It does support AVRO schemes view and providing. This tool is the best suitable for manual testing. The tool not suitable for heavy workloads (like perfomance testing).

Features

• Multiple Kafka clusters;
• AVRO schemes repository refresh on the fly;
• S3 schemes provider;
• Clusters/topics/partitions introspection;
• Live update.

Architecture

Simple REST application based on Angular on frontend and Spring Boot on backend side.

Usage

Development

This chapter describes IDEA usage only and relies on IDEAM modules system.

1. clone the repo; the basic development branch is develop;
2. add backend directory as a Maven module;
3. add frontend module as Web module; Angular app should be detected automatically;
4. Dockerfile under the root folder take responsibility for full artifact build.

Please, read all Backend README and Frontend README to family with backend and frontend development flows separately. However, the flows doesn't differs from standard Spring Boot and Angular development flows.

A lot of thanks

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.