Kafka in your terminal.

Browse and manage topics and consumer groups, and read and produce records as JSON, Avro, or Protobuf, with or without Schema Registry. All from the keyboard.

brew install kaskade

Quick start Documentation View on GitHub

kaskade — zsh

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Open source · Python 3.10+ · macOS & Linux

Features

What it does

Three commands: kaskade admin for topics and consumer groups, kaskade consumer to read records, and kaskade producer to write them.

kaskade admin

Manage topics

Topics, partitions, consumer groups, lag, replicas, and record counts
Create, edit, delete, and filter topics, and check their configuration
Refresh every 30 seconds by default, or whenever you ask

kaskade consumer

Read records

Start from the latest or earliest offsets, or exact partitions and offsets
Decode JSON, Avro, and Protobuf, with local schemas or Schema Registry
Filter by key, value, header, or partition
See records that fail to decode as bytes next to the error

kaskade producer

Write records

Compose a key, value, and headers, and see the offset the broker acknowledged
Encode the consumer's formats, validate JSON Schema, and register schemas
Resend a record copied from the consumer, or load a draft from a file

Every mode client.ini · TLS · SASL · Confluent Cloud · Amazon MSK IAM · themes · keybindings · copy and export

Screenshots

Admin, consumer, and producer

All three work entirely from the keyboard, with arrow keys or Vim-style shortcuts.

kaskade admin ADMIN

Kaskade Admin view showing Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and metrics

Admin Browse and manage topics.

topics · partitions · groups · lag

kaskade consumer CONSUMER

Kaskade Consumer view showing Kafka record keys, values, partitions, and offsets

Consumer Read and filter records.

filter · deserialize · copy · export

kaskade consumer RECORD

Kaskade Record Details showing a value decoded through Schema Registry with its schema ID, subject, and version

Record Details Inspect one record.

key · value · headers · schema

kaskade producer PRODUCER

Kaskade Producer view composing a Kafka record with a JSON value and a summary panel

Producer Compose and produce records.

compose · serialize · register · deliver

Install

Quick start

Install with Homebrew or pipx, then point Kaskade at a broker or a client.ini file.

Option A

Homebrew

brew install kaskade

Option B

pipx

pipx install kaskade

Then connect

Replace the example broker, topic, and options with your own.

Admin $ kaskade admin -b my-kafka:9092

Consumer $ kaskade consumer -b my-kafka:9092 -t my-topic

Producer $ kaskade producer -b my-kafka:9092 -t my-topic

Config file $ kaskade admin --config-file client.ini

Read the usage guide

Links

Docs and community

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