# Bronya0/Kafka-King

A modern and practical kafka GUI client 💕🎉Kafka-King 是一款现代化、实用的 Kafka GUI 客户端，旨在通过直观的桌面界面简化 Apache Kafka 管理。作为一款跨平台应用程序，它为开发人员和管理员提供了强大的工具，可与 Kafka 集群交互，无需依赖命令行界面或基于 Web 的解决方案。

Repository: https://github.com/Bronya0/Kafka-King
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kafka-king
Homepage: https://zread.ai/Bronya0/Kafka-King
Language: Vue
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: gui, kafka, kafka-client, kafka-gui, kafka-gui-client, kafkagui, kafka-clients, kafka-connector, wails, wails-app, wails2
Last push: 2026-07-23T10:24:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 90, longevity 66
- inputs: {"age_days": 931, "days_push": 41, "days_rel": 71, "gap_med": 27.0, "n_releases_24m": 17}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1300, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:17.483901+00:00)

## What it is
Kafka-King is a modern cross-platform desktop GUI client for Apache Kafka, built with Wails and franz-go. It lets developers and administrators manage clusters, topics, consumer groups, and messages through an intuitive interface instead of the command line.

## Use cases
- browse kafka topics and consumer groups in a gui
- consume and inspect kafka messages without cli
- produce test messages to a kafka topic
- create and delete kafka topics with partitions and replicas
- check consumer group lag and offsets
- connect to kafka with SASL or SSL authentication
- monitor kafka topic and partition health

## When to choose
- you want a desktop kafka client instead of web-based tools like Kafka UI
- you need to inspect messages, offsets, and consumer lag visually
- you need support for SASL, SSL, Kerberos, and various compression codecs
- you manage kafka clusters from Windows, macOS, or Linux

## When to avoid
- you need fully automated, scriptable kafka administration (use CLI or IaC tools)
- you need a web-based, multi-user kafka management console
- you use Windows 7 or an unsupported platform

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, developer-tools, message-queue, monitoring
- domain: developer-tools, databases, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: kafka, kafka-gui, wails, message-broker, desktop-client, apache-kafka, messaging, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Bronya0/Kafka-King (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:17.483901+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 2026-08-30T04:52:16.858971+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Bronya0/Kafka-King (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:17.483901+00:00, sha 36f4405b3de5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.