kafka-topic-viewer

A simple web-based viewer to monitor messages on topic(s) in Kafka.

Connects to Kafka via a WebSockets based proxy (using kafka-proxy-ws).

Features

• Monitor multiple Kafka topics
• Receive Kafka messages in real-time

Quick Start

1. Ensure docker is installed and running.

2. Run the following commands:

$ docker pull jchen86/kafka-topic-viewer
$ docker run --rm -it -p 8080:8080 -p 9999:9999 \
             -e KAFKA_URL=http://your-kafka-url:port \
             -e SERVE_STATIC=true \
             jchen86/kafka-topic-viewer

Building the Docker image

1. Run npm build on client directory

$ cd client
$ npm run build

2. Run docker build on project root directory

$ cd ..
$ docker build -t jchen86/kafka-topic-viewer .

Running from source

1. Configure the Kafka URL in server/config.js. Default is localhost:9092.

2. Start the Proxy server

$ npm install && npm run start

3. Configure the topic names to monitor in client/src/app/config.js

4. Start the client app

$ cd client
$ npm install && npm run serve

Kafka Topic Viewer should now be live on your server at port 3000.

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.