Kafka Administration UI

A dedicated administration UI to monitor and manage common Kafka administrative tasks.

Features

• Javascript based UI, using the React framework.
• UI implemented using patternfly framework
• Hosted via Express server and backend based on Node.js
• Uses Kafka-node as the Kafka Client

How it works

• Producers produces or writes data to Kafka brokers or Kafka topics.
• Consumers, on the other hand, read data or — as the name implies — consume data from Kafka topics or Kafka brokers.
• Kafka client allows you to read, write and process streams of events in parallel.
• Nodejs serves as a backend and reads/writes/updates using Kafka Client. This layer has all the business logic.
• The backend is hosted by Express Server and exposes a REST endpoint (a Graphql endpoint in future).
• The UI reads/writes using this endpoint.

Prerequisites

• The latest versions of Node.js and npm installed on your machine
• The latest Java version (JVM) installed on your machine
• Kafka installed on your local machine.

Installation Steps

• Download the Kafka binaries from here and extract the archive.
  
• Install Kafka as described here
• Start Zookeeper and Broker.
• Create Topics, Producers, Consumers and Consumer Groups.
• Run yarn install and yarn start.