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Native macOS and Windows Desktop Client for Apache Kafka

Explore Topics

Browse through Kafka topics and records. Intelligently stream data to debug issues and publish new data directly to your topics.

Manage Groups

Quickly check the state of your consumer groups and manage consumer offsets and group membership.

Connect to MSK and Red Panda

Compatible with alternative implementations like Amazon Managed Kafka IAM and Red Panda out of the box.

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Filter & Process Data

Filter and process the data in your topics using a full Lua programming environment with support for decoding JSON, Apache Avro, MessagePack and other formats.

Visualize Your Data

Leverage the Lua programming environment to aggregate and visualize data from your topics.

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