Kafka UIs

There are several UI tools available for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka clusters. These tools can help simplify the administration of Kafka, provide detailed insights into the cluster's health, and make it easier to manage topics, partitions, and messages. Here’s a list of some popular Kafka UI managers

Kafdrop: A web-based UI that provides a view into Kafka topics and partitions, browses messages, views consumer groups, and their offsets, and allows for message search. It is lightweight and easy to set up.
Read more about Kafdrop UI tool on GitHub

Kafka Manager (now known as CMAK - Cluster Manager for Apache Kafka): An open-source tool developed by Yahoo that allows for management and monitoring of Kafka clusters. It provides features for viewing cluster status, topic management, and consumer monitoring.

Confluent Control Center: Part of the Confluent Platform, this commercial tool provides comprehensive management, monitoring, and event streaming capabilities for Kafka clusters. It offers functionality to manage and monitor the health of Kafka clusters, set up data balancing, and stream lineage tracking.

AKHQ (formerly KafkaHQ): An open-source Kafka GUI for topics, data, consumers, offsets, and more. It provides real-time monitoring and can handle multiple Kafka clusters.

Kafka Tool: A GUI application that allows you to manage and visualize Apache Kafka clusters. It supports Kafka clusters version 0.8 and higher and provides capabilities like browsing data, checking consumer offsets, and more.

Kafka Magic: A user-friendly desktop tool for Windows that simplifies working with Apache Kafka clusters. It helps in managing topics, reading data from brokers, and provides filtering capabilities.

Lenses.io Kafka UI: Lenses provides a Kafka-specific IDE that helps with data exploration, microservices monitoring, and real-time app management. It offers tools for browsing data, monitoring clusters, and managing schemas among others.

Kafkawize: A self-service Kafka topic management web tool that automates the topic creation process and provides governance around it. It's designed to facilitate Kafka operations and governance.

Red Hat AMQ Streams: Based on Strimzi, which provides a Kafka Operator for managing Kafka clusters on Kubernetes. Red Hat AMQ Streams integrates with OpenShift Container Platform and provides tools and UIs for managing Kafka.

KafkaCenter: Developed by the Xiaomi engineering team, it is a one-stop platform for Kafka cluster management and maintenance, monitoring, and consumer offset tracking.

These tools vary widely in their capabilities, ranging from basic Kafka cluster monitoring to full-fledged management and operations solutions. The choice of tool can depend on specific needs such as the complexity of the Kafka environment, budget constraints, and preference for open-source versus commercial products.