# kafbat/kafka-ui

Open-Source Web UI for managing Apache Kafka clusters

Repository: https://github.com/kafbat/kafka-ui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kafbat-kafka-ui
Homepage: https://kafbat.io
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: apache-kafka, big-data, cluster-management, event-streaming, hacktoberfest, kafka, kafka-brokers, kafka-client, kafka-cluster, kafka-connect, kafka-manager, kafka-producer, kafka-streams, kafka-ui, opensource, streaming-data, streams, web-ui, foss
Last push: 2026-08-24T15:25:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 56, longevity 68
- inputs: {"age_days": 954, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 135, "gap_med": 110, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2635, forks 390 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.208045+00:00)

## What it is
Kafbat UI is a free, open-source web UI for monitoring and managing Apache Kafka clusters, supporting multi-cluster management, topic and message browsing, schema registry, and Kafka Connect administration. It is a continuation of the UI for Apache Kafka project maintained by original contributors.

## Use cases
- manage kafka clusters from a web ui
- browse and search kafka messages
- monitor kafka brokers topics and partitions
- manage kafka connect connectors
- manage confluent schema registry schemas
- administer multiple kafka clusters in one dashboard
- troubleshoot kafka consumer lag and message issues

## When to choose
- you need a free self-hosted UI for one or many Kafka clusters
- you want message search with CEL filtering and SerDe pluggability
- you need schema registry and Kafka Connect management in one place
- you want RBAC, auth, and audit logging for Kafka administration

## When to avoid
- you use a message broker other than Kafka
- you need a CLI-only or API-only management tool
- you require a commercial vendor-backed support contract

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, web-framework, developer-tools, search-engine, configuration-management
- domain: big-data, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: apache-kafka, kafka-ui, kafka-connect, schema-registry, event-streaming, cluster-management, message-browsing, rbac, messaging, data-engineering, docker, web-server, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- kafbat/kafka-ui (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.208045+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:20.935144+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kafbat/kafka-ui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.208045+00:00, sha 4abf32cb7f2b)
  - homepage: https://kafbat.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:02:35.443343+00:00, sha f7397fe13c00)
  - site_page: https://ui.docs.kafbat.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:02:35.445918+00:00, sha d9b866accbf5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.