Kafka King is a desktop Apache Kafka management client built with Wails and franz-go. It provides graphical tools for connecting to clusters, inspecting brokers, and configuring topics. Users can create or delete topics, manage partitions, and examine consumer groups and message offsets. A message browser supports real-time consumption, filtering, and exporting records. Producer tools allow messages to be sent individually or in batches with custom headers. Schema Registry integration supports Avro, JSON, and Protobuf decoding. Advanced administration includes offset resets, partition reassignment, message purging, and cluster health checks. Secure connections support TLS, SASL, Kerberos, OAuth, AWS MSK IAM, and SSH tunneling. Kafka King runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Features
- Graphical Kafka cluster administration with broker, topic, and partition management
- Real-time message consumption with filtering, offset controls, and JSON or CSV exporting
- Batch message production with customizable headers and partition assignments
- Consumer group monitoring with committed offsets, lag statistics, and offset resets
- Schema Registry integration with Avro, JSON, and Protobuf message decoding
- TLS, SASL, Kerberos, OAuth, AWS MSK IAM, and SSH tunnel authentication