Kafka UI, governance-first
A modern Kafka UI and web console for Apache Kafka — topics, consumer groups, schema registry, ACLs, and data lineage in one place.
The Kafka web console your platform team needs
Kafka UI brings enterprise-grade control to your Kafka ecosystem — self-service topics with approval workflows, enforced schema and ACL policies, and end-to-end data lineage.
What a Kafka GUI should do
Schema Registry
Centralized schema management with versioning, compatibility checks, and automated validation for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema.
Topic Management
Self-service topic creation with approval workflows, configuration templates, and lifecycle management across all your clusters.
ACL & Access Control
Fine-grained access control with role-based permissions, integration with LDAP and OAuth, and automated policy enforcement.
Data Lineage
End-to-end visibility into data flows across topics, producers, and consumers with interactive lineage graphs and impact analysis.
Audit Logging
Comprehensive audit trails capturing every configuration change, access attempt, and schema evolution for compliance and troubleshooting.
Intelligent Alerting
Proactive alerts on schema violations, unauthorized access attempts, and configuration drifts with customizable notification channels.
Frequently asked questions about Kafka UI
- A Kafka UI is a web-based console for browsing and managing Apache Kafka clusters — topics, consumer groups, messages, offsets, and schemas — without the CLI. Kafka Governance is a governance-first Kafka UI that adds schema registry management, approval workflows, ACL enforcement, and data lineage.
- With a Kafka GUI you can list and create topics, inspect records, monitor consumer-group lag, manage ACLs, browse the schema registry, and trace data lineage. Teams that run Kafka at scale use a Kafka UI to replace error-prone CLI workflows.
- Several strong open-source Kafka UIs exist (Provectus Kafka-UI, Kafbat UI, Redpanda Console). They cover browsing and basic management. Kafka Governance builds on that foundation for production governance: schema compatibility, self-service topic workflows, and audit-ready ACL history.
- Kafka Governance is in active development. Join the waitlist on the product page to get early access — we'll notify you at launch.
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Join the waitlist and receive early access benefits when Kafka Governance launches.
