# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/redpanda-data-console
Homepage: https://redpanda.com
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Topics: apache-kafka, dataops, react, typescript, kafka-ui, kafka-gui, web-ui, go, kafka
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:58:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2530, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 12.5, "n_releases_24m": 45}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4324, forks 430 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:41.998609+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, monitoring, search-engine, auth, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, analytics, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform, go
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- redpanda-data/console (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.998609+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 2026-08-29T18:21:42.634545+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.998609+00:00, sha b234bc8b5204)
  - homepage: https://redpanda.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:57.384283+00:00, sha 4b3a58e8da2a)
  - site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:57.393464+00:00, sha ef4b8c4fd806)
  - site_page: https://www.redpanda.com/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:57.395211+00:00, sha 8f8a05d74054)
  - site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/home (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:57.397002+00:00, sha ef4b8c4fd806)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.