Hey, Redpanda Console (previously known as Kowl) is a Web UI, that allows you to explore and find messages in Kafka, provides an overview about topic configuration, consumer groups, brokers etc. It is designed to be hosted by a platform team, so that the initial setup including SASL, TLS etc. only …

Actually no plans at the moment, but feature requests via the GitHub issues are always welcome. We try to prioritize by community feedback. However for kSQL I’m not sure if we are even allowed to offer features around it (because of the Confluent license). Maybe someone from Confluent can shed some…

We have added support for Kafka connect. It has some unique features that no other GUI tool can offer so far and hence I believe for those that are looking for a UI for Kafka connect management - Kowl is one of the best options (and also free/opensource): Multi cluster support Visual Setup Wizard …

Hi, So far, Kowl is the best tool I’ve found for monitoring Kafka. I’ve been able to configure almost everything. The only thing that I was not able to connect was Schema-Registry. I have Confluent SR running in a Docker container and no matter what I put in SCHEMAREGISTRY_URLS, Kowl does not s…

Hello, I’ve had the same problem you had. To fix it you need to put KAFKA_ prefix before SCHEMAREGISTRY… as stated here . Hope it helps.

After the acquisition is this still open source as i don’t see any licensing fineprint : GitHub - redpanda-data/console: Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, …

I’ll update this post with the latest information & screenshots. The Software is still open source, the licenses can be found here: console/licenses at master · redpanda-data/console · GitHub . 99% of all users can still use it, unless you want to offer it in a commercial SaaS - this is my understan…

From the first glance, can share these thoughts: Missing multiple cluster support Did not find a way to override credentials to be used for Kafka Connect (due to the fact that it seems Redpanda Console is intended to be used with mutiple Connect clusters per single Kafka Cluster, and this is not e…

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Nice! Do you have any plans of adding kSQL console support to it?

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