What is Kouncil?
Kouncil lets you monitor and manage your Apache Kafka clusters using a modern web interface. It's free & open source kafka web UI, feature-rich and easy to set up! This simple kafka tool makes your DATA detectible, helps to troubleshoot problems and deliver optimal solutions. Yoy can easily monitor brokers and their condition, consumer groups and their pace along with the current lag or simply view the content of topics in real time.
Here are some of the main features of Kouncil. 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
If you wish to simply check out Kouncil in action, without having to install it, we've prepared a demo site showcasing the main features of Kouncil. The demo site can be found here
Quick start
The easiest way to start working with Kouncil is by using Docker:
There is only two required environment variables: bootstrapServers which should point to one of the brokers in your Kafka cluster and kouncil.auth.active-provider which specified 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 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 option head out to Authentication
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