Hi there! We’re excited to announce that KafkIO has reached a major milestone! Six months and 16 versions since its first release, we feel like it deserves a mention.
KafkIO is a native, client-side Kafka GUI for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s designed to cover everything you’d expect from Kafka and its ecosystem—plus more:
- Expected support for standard connectivity and security protocols
- Compatible with cloud providers like Aiven and Confluent
- Specialized integrations for Strimzi, Azure Event Hub, and Amazon MSK
- Detailed cluster and broker statistics
- Full topic and message management with flexible search capabilities
- Automatic detection, formatting, and syntax highlighting of message types
- View messages in raw or pretty-printed formats
- Real-time message streaming
- Consumer and ACL management
- Full integration with Schema Registry
- ksqlDB editor and KSQL support
- Kafka Connect: fully manage connectors
- Certificate support (PEM, X.509, PKCS12, JKS) without conversion hassles—but a built-in converter is available if needed
- Health log for basic real-time monitoring
- Event log to diagnose issues
- Filterable tables and copy-friendly data
- Portable mode for keeping the app and configuration in a single folder
- Import, export, and reset preferences with ease
- Intuitive pop-ups and tooltips throughout
We’re just getting started, with many more features planned!
KafkIO is highly configurable, supporting self-signed certificates, proxies, timeouts, and more. There’s no backend, Docker, or web server—it’s a traditional desktop app that works out of the box.
This is a freeware (donationware) project, built out of passion for the Kafka community.
Explore the features: https://kafkio.com/features
Download here: https://kafkio.com/download
If you’re looking for a Kafka companion tool, give KafkIO a try! We’d love your feedback—constructive suggestions are always welcome.