Kafma

A desktop IDE and UI client for Apache Kafka that helps debug streaming issues and reproduce production problems locally. It provides message browsing, producing and consuming, schema management, topic configuration, and consumer lag inspection in one interface. It is for software developers, DevOps/SREs, and data teams in companies that operate Kafka clusters. It is delivered as a desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux that connects to self-hosted, Confluent Cloud, and AWS MSK clusters.

Key features

• Produce and consume messages in one tab
• Decode Avro and Protobuf automatically
• Replay, forward, or export messages
• Edit schemas with diff and compatibility check
• Mock payloads from schema subjects
• Clone topics between clusters with schemas
• Clone topic data to local Docker
• Inspect consumer group lag and backlog
• Create and configure topics without CLI
• Form-driven cluster authentication support
• Activity logs with revert for actions
• Kafka Connect configuration and monitoring