redpanda-data/console
Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 12.5
- age_days: 2530
- days_rel: 9
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 45
Adoption not part of the score
4324 stars · 430 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Redpanda Console (formerly Kowl) is a web-based UI for managing and debugging Kafka and Redpanda clusters. It provides topic browsing, a rich message viewer with ad-hoc filtering, consumer group management, schema registry and Kafka Connect administration, and cluster health overviews.
Use cases
- browse and inspect kafka topic messages with filters
- manage kafka consumer groups and reset offsets
- view kafka cluster broker health and configuration
- manage schema registry avro protobuf schemas
- administer kafka connect connectors
- debug streaming data in real time
- manage kafka acls and sasl users
- explore kafka messages with a web ui
When to choose
- you need a polished web UI to operate Kafka or Redpanda clusters
- you want to search and filter topic messages with dynamic JavaScript filters and multiple encoding support
- you need to manage consumer group offsets, ACLs, schema registry, and Kafka Connect from one place
- you want docker, binary, or Helm chart deployment options
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose message broker UI beyond Kafka-compatible systems
- you require a CLI-only or headless administration workflow
- you need a fully open-source license - the repository shows no license, and some enterprise features are gated
Facets
application · maturity active
gui monitoring search-engine auth developer-tools developer-tools analytics self-hosted self-hosted cross-platform go kafka-ui kafka-gui redpanda message-viewer consumer-groups schema-registry kafka-connect data-streaming time-travel-debugging messaging data-engineering docker web-server kubernetes typescript
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console · fetched 2026-08-28 · b234bc8b5204
- homepage: https://redpanda.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4b3a58e8da2a
- site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · ef4b8c4fd806
- site_page: https://www.redpanda.com/about-us · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8f8a05d74054
- site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/home · fetched 2026-08-29 · ef4b8c4fd806
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| redpanda-data/console | main | 99 |
For agents
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