offtopic/README.md

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Offtopic

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Offtopic is a simple web application built with Ratpack for inspecting and consuming events from Kafka.

The primary goal of this tool is to give you real-time insight into a running Kafka cluster.

Watching topics in action

Requirements

  • Java 8
  • Zookeeper
  • Kafka

Features

  • Watch: From the /topics page clicking the "watch" button will set up a WebSockets-based stream of events straight from Kafka to your browser
  • Multipass: From the /topics page you can select multiple topics to watch at once (screenshot of multipass in action)
  • Binary data support: Clicking on a message row in the "watch" view will drop down a base64-encoded version of the message data