Franz

A macOS Client for Apache Kafka

Supported platforms: macOS 13.0 and up
Franz for Windows Early Access

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.

a screenshot of the New Connection window

a screenshot of a Lua script decoding Apache Avro data

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.