IBM/sarama

Health v2 · maintenance only

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12510 stars · 1860 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for Apache Kafka, providing pure-Go implementations of Kafka producers, consumers, and administrative operations. It is actively maintained by IBM with a documented compatibility guarantee for the two latest stable releases of Kafka and Go.

Use cases

• produce and consume messages from kafka in go
• build a kafka consumer group application in go
• stream events to kafka from a go service
• manage kafka topics programmatically
• test kafka integration code with mocks
• diagnose kafka clusters with cli tools

When to choose

• you need a pure-Go Kafka client with no cgo dependencies
• you want a mature, widely adopted Kafka library with strong API stability guarantees
• you need consumer group support, compression, and TLS/SASL authentication in Go

When to avoid

• you prefer a librdkafka-based client with lower latency and C performance
• you need the very latest Kafka protocol features on day one
• you are not working in the Go ecosystem

Facets

library · maturity stable

message-queue serialization developer-tools microservices backend developer-tools go windows cross-platform kafka kafka-client event-streaming producer-consumer messaging linux macos

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