

Offset Explorer
Offset Explorer (formerly Kafka Tool) is a GUI application for managing and using Apache Kafka clusters. It provides an intuitive UI that allows one to quickly view objects within a Kafka cluster as well as the messages stored in the topics of the cluster.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Features
Tags
- cluster
- xml
- User interface
- apache-kafka
- JSON
Offset Explorer News & Activities
Recent activities
FearFactor added Offset Explorer as alternative to Kpow by Factor House
Offset Explorer information
What is Offset Explorer?
Offset Explorer (formerly Kafka Tool) is a GUI application for managing and using Apache Kafka clusters. It provides an intuitive UI that allows one to quickly view objects within a Kafka cluster as well as the messages stored in the topics of the cluster. It contains features geared towards both developers and administrators. Some of the key features include
- Quickly view all your Kafka clusters, including their brokers, topics and consumers
- View contents of messages in your partitions and add new messages
- View offsets of the consumers, including Apache Storm Kafka spout consumers
- Show JSON, XML and Avro messages in a pretty-printed format
- Add and drop topics plus other management features
- Save individual messages from your partitions to local hard drive
- Write your own plugins that allow you to view custom data formats
- Offset Explorer runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS
Offset Explorer is free for personal use only. Any non-personal use, including commercial, educational and non-profit work is not permitted without purchasing a license. Non-personal use is allowed for evaluation purposes for 30 days following the download of Offset Explorer, after which you must purchase a valid license or remove the software.




