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dushixiang/kafka-map
A beautiful, concise and powerful kafka web management tool.
kafka-map is a web UI for Kafka cluster management, built with Spring Boot (Java 17) and React. It covers the basics: topic management, consumer group monitoring, offset reset, and a message browser. The delay message feature (18 levels, implemented on top of Kafka itself) is the one genuinely non-standard thing here.
The Docker setup is dead simple — one `docker run` with two env vars and you're in. Multi-cluster support is built in from the start, not bolted on. The delay message implementation is interesting: it rolls its own scheduled-topic mechanism rather than requiring Kafka's own timer topic hack. GraalVM native image config is included, so startup time can be drastically cut if you're willing to build natively.
Last meaningful activity is 2025 but the feature set is thin compared to Kafka UI or Akhq — no schema registry, no ACL management, no connect cluster support. Authentication is a single shared username/password with no RBAC or per-cluster credentials, which makes it a non-starter for any multi-team environment. The README opens with two Chinese sponsor ads before any English content, and the English docs are clearly a translation afterthought. No tests visible beyond two trivial unit tests for the delay queue.