# provectus/kafka-ui

Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management

Repository: https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kafka-ui
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kafka-ui, kafka-brokers, kafka, kafka-streams, kafka-client, opensource, kafka-connect, kafka-producer, streams, big-data, apache-kafka, cluster-management, web-ui, kafka-manager, kafka-cluster, streaming-data, event-streaming, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2024-07-26T08:00:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2472, "days_push": 768, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12267, forks 1413 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:52.195072+00:00)

## What it is
UI for Apache Kafka is a free, open-source web UI for monitoring and managing Apache Kafka clusters. It provides a lightweight dashboard to inspect brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, schemas, and message flows across multiple clusters.

## Use cases
- manage multiple kafka clusters from one web interface
- browse and inspect kafka topics and messages
- monitor consumer group lag and offsets
- troubleshoot kafka brokers and partition assignments
- view and manage kafka connect connectors
- create and edit kafka topics with custom configuration
- search messages within kafka topics

## When to choose
- you need a free, self-hosted web UI for Kafka cluster administration
- you manage multiple Kafka clusters and want a single dashboard
- you want to inspect topics, consumer groups, and schemas without CLI commands
- you prefer a lightweight tool deployable via Docker

## When to avoid
- you need a commercial tool with enterprise support and SLAs
- you require Kafka cluster provisioning or full broker configuration management beyond monitoring
- you need a non-web, CLI-only workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, gui, self-hosted, developer-tools
- domain: big-data, monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: apache-kafka, kafka-ui, cluster-management, event-streaming, kafka-connect, consumer-groups, java, spring-boot, messaging, devops, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- provectus/kafka-ui (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.195072+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 2026-08-29T17:14:12.393647+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.195072+00:00, sha 363d2b665da6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.