“Kafka Web Console” is a open source monitor tool for Kafka.

This project is hosted at https://github.com/claudemamo/kafka-web-console. It’s a very simple console that only suit for learning Kafka purpose. (Until when the post written.)

• Install Play Framework.

  • Download here http://www.playframework.com/download
  • Unzip to /path/to/play
  • Build Play. /path/to/play/framework/build

• Install Kafka-web-console.

  • git clone https://github.com/claudemamo/kafka-web-console.git /path/to/kafka-web-console
  • (or download the stable zip from https://github.com/claudemamo/kafka-web-console/releases)

• Run the server

  • Enable port 9000 for the server.
  • cd /path/to/kafka-web-console
  • /path/to/play/play start
  • Then the web console is servicing on port 9000.

• Configuration

  • register zookeeper
    

  • Check status to see if connected
    

• “Database xxx needs evolution!” - Solution for database is not initialized.
  • use “play -DapplyEvolutions.default=true” to start.
  • Or add “applyEvolutions.default=true” in conf/application.conf

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