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= Offtopic
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image:https://travis-ci.org/rtyler/offtopic.svg?branch=master["Build Status", link="https://travis-ci.org/rtyler/offtopic"]
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image:https://api.bintray.com/packages/rtyler/maven/offtopic/images/download.svg[link="https://bintray.com/rtyler/maven/offtopic/_latestVersion"]
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Offtopic is a simple web application built with link:http://ratpack.io[Ratpack]
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for inspecting and consuming events from link:http://kafka.apache.org[Apache Kafka]
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The primary goal of this tool is to give you real-time insight into a running
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Kafka cluster.
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2015-09-03 15:31:52 +00:00
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image:http://strongspace.com/rtyler/public/offtopic-0.2.0-topicwatch.png['Watching topics in action']
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== System Requirements
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* Java 8
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* link:http://zookeeper.apache.org[Apache Zookeeper]
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* link:http://kafka.apache.org[Apache Kafka]
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== Features
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* **Watch**: From the `/topics` page clicking the "watch" button will set up a
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WebSockets-based stream of events straight from Kafka to your browser
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* **Multipass**: From the `/topics` page you can select multiple topics to
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watch at once (link:http://strongspace.com/rtyler/public/offtopic-usemultipass-20141125.png[screenshot of multipass in action])
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* **Binary data support**: Clicking on a message row in the "watch" view will
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drop down a base64-encoded version of the message data
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