Kafma — a desktop Kafka UI tool for faster debugging

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Hi everyone,

We’re excited to share Kafma v1.0.0 — a desktop Kafka GUI client and IDE designed to keep the consume–inspect–produce loop in one workspace and quickly clone remote topics to your local cluster for testing.

Kafma Console showing Kafka messages in a topic tab
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Here are the two core workflows we built it around:

  • Console — a topic is a tab

    The Console keeps the message stream, producer, and topic details together in one workspace. Expand any message to inspect its payload and metadata; Avro and Protobuf decode automatically. Replay it to another topic, forward it to another cluster, or save it to a file without leaving the Console.

  • Data Clone — bring remote topics to your local cluster

    Clone a remote topic’s configuration, schemas, and a selected slice of data into a local cluster. You can apply masking rules while messages are copied, then test locally with the same topic context without modifying the source.

Beyond Console and Data Clone, Kafma also supports schema editing and validation, topic and consumer group management, consumer lag diagnostics, and offset resets.

Kafma is closed-source software with Free and Pro plans.

Feedback from the community would be greatly appreciated!