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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, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.

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What it is

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, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2020-08-09 12:04:42 UTC to 2021-10-01 19:13:04 UTC.

0122020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 2021

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What Hacker News says

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db3pt0·Oct 1, 2021
A few pieces of feedback. Positive: - Multi-cluster support is a great feature! That's the main thing missing from Kowl, in my opinion - The UI feels clean - Message streaming feels smooth, and the search feature is a great addition. Also love the ability to see a message for a given partition/offset, and that JSON messages are nicely rendered as JSON! Negative/Feature Requests: - The CleanupPolicy logic doesn't handle "delete,compact" (I see bug number 829 addressed a slightly related issue, maybe that logic could be expanded [1]) - When viewing Cluster -> Topic -> Consumers, it seems like far more is being loaded than just consumer groups for that particular topic. It takes much longer to load than, e.g., Kowl does for pulling the same information - Similar feedback for when clicking on an individual consumer group (example
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URL path: "/ui/clusters/dev/consumer-groups/my-group"). It takes a very long time to load - If any permissions issues are encountered while loading the individual consumer group, the entire request fails. That wouldn't necessarily be an issue, but it is when you're loading all consumer groups, and not just the one requested - I don't see any docs on how to access a topic that is secured with certificates (Kowl's relevant config [2]) - If a schema registry uses a self-signed certificate (or one signed by a corporation's CA), there's no way to pass the certificate through a config or skip validation (Kowl's relevant config [3]). As it is, you get a 500 error in the API call, but the UI doesn't show an error Overall, it seems like a fair bit of thought went into this! But there are a few quirks that make it very tough to use in a corporate environment with (perhaps excessively) large Kafka clusters with hundreds/thousands of topics, or secured with internal certificates 1. https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/master/kafka-ui-a... 2. https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl/blob/10776b81e45abfa716548d... 3. https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl/blob/10776b81e45abfa716548d...
In Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka
abledon·Aug 25, 2020
"""Many of these were shaped by our experiences making AWS changes with Terraform and Kubernetes changes with kubectl. We wanted an equivalent to these for Kafka!""" so use this topicctl for advanced topic changes.... and the more primitive kafkactl[1] for basic stuff? What about the 10 or so other GUI managers like this one? https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl [2] [1]https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099037
In Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics

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