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.
Redpanda Console, previously known as Kowl, is a powerful web application designed to simplify the management and debugging of your Kafka and Redpanda workloads. This intuitive tool allows users to seamlessly interact with their data streaming environments, making it easier to explore messages, monitor consumer groups, and maintain overall system performance. With an accessible user interface, Redpanda Console offers flexibility for both beginners and seasoned professionals in the data management space.
What sets Redpanda Console apart is its emphasis on usability while providing comprehensive features that enhance visibility and control over your data streams. Whether you are trying to analyze messages in real-time or manage complex consumer group configurations, this console has you covered, making it an essential tool for anyone working in data streaming.
Message Viewer: Explore messages in your topics using ad-hoc queries and dynamic filters. Filter messages effortlessly with JavaScript functions, and support various encodings such as JSON, Avro, and Protobuf.
Consumer Groups: Access a full list of active consumer groups along with their offsets. You can easily edit or delete group offsets per group, topic, or partition.
Topic Overview: Navigate through your Kafka topics, review configurations, and check space usage, while also gaining insights into consumer activity and partition details.
Cluster Overview: Obtain an at-a-glance view of all brokers in your cluster, including their health, configuration details, and space usage to help streamline cluster management.
Security Management: Create, list, or edit Kafka ACLs (Access Control Lists) and manage SASL-SCRAM users, ensuring robust security measures.
Schema Registry: Efficiently manage and list all aspects of Avro, Protobuf, or JSON schemas, integrating schema management into your workflow.
Kafka Connect Integration: Oversee connectors from multiple clusters, modify configurations, and easily view or restart tasks directly from the console.
Redpanda Transforms: Monitor and manage data transformations that are deployed in your Redpanda cluster, providing greater control over data processing.
