kafka dog

Kafka Dog is a lightweight Apache Kafka visualization management tool that provides an intuitive interface for managing and monitoring Kafka clusters

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Kafka Dog

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Kafka Dog is a lightweight desktop application for visualizing and managing Apache Kafka. It provides a user-friendly graphical interface for managing and monitoring Kafka clusters.

✨ Features

🚀 Native desktop client, simple and easy to use
📝 Support for multiple connection configuration management
🔍 Topic and partition information visualization
📊 Message viewing and real-time preview
🎯 Support for Latest/Earliest message positioning
📦 Support for multiple data formats including String, Avro, Protobuf

🖥 Supported Platforms

Windows

📦 Installation & Usage

Windows

1.Download the latest version of KafkaDog-windows-x64.zip
2.Extract to any directory
3.Double-click to run KafkaDog.exe

🚀 Quick Start

Launch Kafka Dog
Click the “Add Connection” button in the bottom left corner
In the popup dialog, fill in:
- Connection name (to identify different connections)
- Kafka server address
- Port number (default 9092)
Click “Test Connection” to verify connectivity
Click “Save” after successful connection
In the left panel:
- Double-click connection name to load Topic list
- Expand Topic to view partition information
- Click specific partition to view message content
In the right panel:
- Select Latest/Earliest to switch message position
- Use pagination controls to browse more messages

📸 Interface

主界面

🔨 Development Plans

[ ] Add message sending functionality
[ ] Add consumer group management
[ ] Support Topic creation and configuration
[ ] Add message search functionality
[ ] Support more message formats (JSON, XML, etc.)

🤝 Contributing

If you want to contribute code to Kafka Dog, Pull Requests and Issues are welcome!