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lensesio/kafka-connect-ui
Deprecated - See Lenses.io Community Edition
A now-abandoned AngularJS web UI for managing Kafka Connect clusters — browse connectors, create/edit configs, view task status. It was built by Landoop (now Lenses.io) and officially deprecated in favor of their commercial/community product. The README is literally just a curl command pointing you elsewhere.
- Covered real operational pain: the Kafka Connect REST API is tedious to drive by hand, and this gave you a visual connector overview without standing up a full Confluent Control Center
- Bundled HTML documentation for a wide range of connectors (JDBC, S3, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, etc.) statically, so it worked offline
- Config editor supports properties, JSON, and curl output — useful for teams that want to export configs to version control
- Officially deprecated and dead — the README exists solely to redirect you to Lenses, which requires accepting an EULA and running their Docker image
- Built on AngularJS (1.x) with Bower and Grunt — a stack that reached end-of-life in December 2021; any security vulnerabilities in the dependency tree will never be patched
- No authentication or authorization baked in — it proxied the Kafka Connect REST API directly, meaning anyone who could reach the UI could reconfigure or delete connectors
- Last meaningful code activity predates the 2025 bump; that recent push was almost certainly just a README edit pointing to the replacement