kaskade

kaskade [-b broker] [options]

kaskade is a TUI for Apache Kafka that allows you to interact with and consume topics directly from the terminal. It provides features for listing topics, partitions, consumer groups, and group members, as well as viewing topic information including lag, replicas, and record counts.The tool supports creating, editing, and deleting topics, filtering topics by name, and consuming messages with deserialization support for JSON, string, integer, long, float, boolean, double, Avro, Protobuf, and Schema Registry formats. Messages can be filtered by key, value, header, or partition.

Requires a running Kafka cluster. Schema Registry integration requires a running Schema Registry instance. Complex Avro/Protobuf schemas may have deserialization limitations.

kaskade was created by Saul Jabin (sauljabin) and is written in Python using the Textual framework. It was designed to bring a modern, interactive Kafka browsing experience to the terminal.