Kaskade

Kaskade is a text user interface (TUI) for Apache Kafka, built with Textual. It includes features like:

• Admin:
  • List topics, partitions, groups and group members
  • Topic information like lag, replicas, records count
  • Create and delete topics
• Consumer:
  • Json, string, integer and double deserialization

Screenshots

Installation

Install with pipx:

pipx install kaskade

pipx will install kaskade and kskd aliases.

Upgrade with pipx:

pipx upgrade kaskade

Running kaskade

Help:

kaskade --help
kaskade admin --help
kaskade consumer --help

Admin view:

kaskade admin -b localhost:9092

Consumer view:

kaskade consumer -b localhost:9092 -t my-topic

Configuration examples

SSL encryption example:

kaskade admin -b localhost:9092 -x security.protocol=SSL

For more information about SSL encryption and SSL authentication go to the librdkafka official page: Configure librdkafka client.

Multiple bootstrap servers:

kaskade admin -b broker1:9092,broker2:9092

Confluent cloud:

kaskade admin -b ${BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS} \
        -x security.protocol=SASL_SSL \
        -x sasl.mechanism=PLAIN \
        -x sasl.username=${CLUSTER_API_KEY} \
        -x sasl.password=${CLUSTER_API_SECRET}

Consume and deserialize:

kaskade consumer -b localhost:9092 -t my-topic -k json -v json

Consuming from the beginning:

kaskade consumer -b localhost:9092 -x auto.offset.reset=earliest

Development

For development instructions see DEVELOPMENT.md.