Explore and manage topics, produce messages, and monitor live streams - all directly from your IDE.
Yonatan Dvir
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Now you can connect to your Kafka clusters directly from your IDE - easily and in seconds, whether locally or remotely.
Developers love tools that make their lives easier. Whether it’s debugging, visualizing data, or managing clusters, the right tools can transform hours of manual work into just a few clicks. When it comes to Kafka - one of the most powerful but complex streaming platforms - having the right interface is critical. That’s exactly why we built our new Kafka UI Plugin.
Kafka is incredibly powerful, but let’s be honest - the CLI can be intimidating and time-consuming. Managing topics, monitoring consumer groups, or producing and consuming messages usually means juggling multiple commands, JSON payloads, and scripts.
A good Kafka UI solves this by giving developers visibility and control without sacrificing flexibility. It makes it easy to explore topics, understand data flow, and debug issues - all in one place.
We wanted to create a fast, intuitive, and developer-friendly Kafka UI that helps you:
Everything is designed to minimize friction and let you focus on what really matters - building great streaming applications.
Getting started is simple:
In a few minutes, you’ll have full control over your Kafka environment - no extra setup, no complicated configs.
We’re just getting started. Upcoming features include:
We’re building this tool with developers, for developers - and your feedback is key.
Aiven is one of the leading Apache Kafka providers for streaming solutions, and we're experts in the Kafka architecture. We bring together all the elements needed for you to move massive amounts of data with very low latency. Our streaming platform is ideal for event-driven architectures, streaming data pipelines, fine-tuning AI models, real-time analytics, and more.
