What is Kouncil?
Kouncil lets you monitor and manage your Apache Kafka clusters using a modern web interface.It's an easy-to-set-up, feature-rich, free and open-source Kafka web UI. This simple Kafka tool makes your DATA detectible, helps troubleshoot problems and deliver optimal solutions. You can easily monitor brokers and their condition, consumer groups and their pace along with the current lag, or view the content of topics in real time.
Here are some of Kouncil's main features. For a more comprehensive list check out the features section.
Advanced record browsing in table format
Multiple cluster support
Cluster monitoring
Consumer group monitoring
Event Tracking
Demo app
Check out Kouncil in action without installing it. We've prepared a demo site showcasing the main features of Kouncil, which can be found [here]. (https://kouncil-demo.web.app/)
Quick start
The easiest way to start working with Kouncil is by using Docker:
There are only two required environment variables: bootstrapServers, which should point to one of the brokers in your Kafka cluster, and kouncil.auth.active-provider, which specifies authentication mode. For example, if your cluster consists of three brokers - kafka1:9092, kafka2: 9092, kafka3:9092 - you only have to specify one of them (-e bootstrapServers="kafka1:9092"), and you are good to go. Kouncil will automatically do the rest.
Additionally, Kouncil supports multiple clusters. Hosts specified in bootstrapServers may point to brokers in several clusters, and Kouncil will recognize that properly. Brokers should be separated using a comma, i.e.: docker run -d -p 80:8080 -e bootstrapServers="kafka1:9092,kafka1.another.cluster:8001" -e kouncil.auth.active-provider="inmemory" consdata/kouncil:latest
After the docker run command, head to http://localhost.
Images for Kouncil are hosted here: https://hub.docker.com/r/consdata/kouncil.
For more advanced configuration, consult the Deployment section.
Authentication
Default credentials to log in to Kouncil are admin/admin. For more authentication options, check out Authentication
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