The Kafka UI tool built for the enterprise

Kpow is a single UI for Apache Kafka that lets your team search, inspect, manage, and govern every cluster, with no extra infrastructure to maintain, no vendor lock-in, and no command-line workarounds.

Your Kafka environment has grown. The way you operate it didn't.

A single UI for Apache Kafka in production.

Observe

Cluster health

Real-time cluster health, broker sync state, and under-replicated partition detection without touching the CLI.

Consumer lag

Consumer lag broken down by group, topic, partition, host, and broker simultaneously, so you can see where lag is concentrated and why.

Kafka Streams

Kafka Streams topology with live metrics at every stage of your streaming applications.

Prometheus export

Prometheus metrics export to feed your existing Grafana, Datadog, or alerting stack with Kafka-specific telemetry.

Inspect

kJQ filtering

kJQ filtering across single or multiple topics simultaneously, scanning tens of thousands of messages in seconds.

Schema-aware deserialisation

Schema-aware deserialisation for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema, presenting structured readable data rather than raw bytes.

AI-assisted search

Bring your own AI model: describe what you're looking for in plain English, and Kpow generates the kJQ filter automatically.

Streaming search

Streaming search to watch for matching messages in real time during a deployment or incident.

Manage

Topic lifecycle

Topic lifecycle management including create, configure, copy, and delete without CLI access or a ticket queue.

Consumer group control

Consumer group and offset management including reset, skip, and advance with a full audit trail of every change.

Connector management

Connector, Schema Registry, and ksqlDB management from a single interface across all your environments.

Approval workflows

Staged approval workflows that require sign-off before sensitive operations execute.

Govern

Role-based access control

Role-based access control at global and resource level, with multi-tenancy isolation between teams.

Data masking

Data masking policies for PII including credit card numbers, account identifiers, and health data enforced at the tooling layer.

SSO integration

SSO integration with Okta, Azure AD, KeyCloak, and any LDAP, SAML, or OAuth2 provider.

Audit log

Complete audit log of every action across every cluster, available via UI, webhook, or internal Kafka topic.

2x

Debugging time cut in half

Real-time visibility and search replace hours of investigation with minutes.

90%

Faster event investigation

Filtering and multi-topic search eliminate the need for custom consumer scripts.

Fewer production incidents

Schema validation catches malformed messages before they reach downstream consumers.

Scale to thousands of engineers

Self-service workflows reduce platform team bottlenecks as headcount grows.

Compatible with every Kafka distribution your team operates.

Most teams operate more than one Kafka distribution across multiple environments. Kpow works across all of them from a single interface, without requiring changes to your existing setup.

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Stateless by design

No external database, proxy layer, or additional infrastructure needed.

Deploys in minutes

Single container deployment with no migration required on upgrades.

Air-gap capable

Runs fully offline with no data leaving your environment.

Per-cluster pricing

Costs remain flat as your engineering team expands.

"The number of incidents related to poor Kafka schemas has decreased. Kpow always fetches and serialises the schema correctly, so bad data that would previously make it into topics gets caught earlier."

Erik SchumannProduct Owner Data Quality Platform, NORD/LB

"We went into Kpow and could see the brokers were out of sync, one of four wasn't running. Kubernetes said every pod was fine. Prometheus showed no alerts. We could not get that from Rancher Kubernetes at all."

Dave GaleManager Middleware, Claritev

"Features such as reassignment, offset resets, topic operations, and consumer state monitoring are all available through the UI, which enables even non-Kafka engineers to perform operational tasks easily and efficiently."

Pricing

Community Edition

Free

No time limit. No credit card required.

  • Test in non-production environments
  • Visibility into 1 Kafka cluster
  • Search, inspect, and produce messages
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