Dealing with Kafka topics and groups can be a real mission using just the standard scripts. I looked at the web tools available and thought, 'Yeah, nah—too much effort.'

If you're like me and can't be bothered setting up a local web UI just to check a record, here is LazyKafka. It’s the terminal app that does the hard work so you don't have to.

Browse, search, and manage Kafka topics with ease.

• Browse all topics in your cluster
• Real-time search filtering
• View topic details (partitions, replication factor, configs)
• Delete topics with confirmation
• Add partitions to scale your topics

Explore records with powerful filtering and pagination.

• Paginated loading (configurable page size)
• Multiple sort modes: Newest First, Oldest First, Offset Asc/Desc
• Search by key, value, or headers
• Filter by partition
• View full record details (key, value, headers, timestamp, offset)

Monitor consumer groups and their state.

• List all consumer groups
• View group details: state, protocol, members
• Inspect member assignments
• Track committed offsets per topic/partition

Debug Kafka interactions with built-in protocol logging.

• Live logging of API requests/responses
• Correlation ID tracking
• Response time monitoring
• Error code visibility

Keep an eye on your connection and cluster stats.

• Real-time connection status
• Bytes sent/received statistics
• Multi-broker support

Download the executable file compatible with your OS from the releases page here.

https://github.com/nvh0412/lazykafka/releases

# Download the binary (replace with your platform)
# Make it executable
chmod +x lazykafka-*
# Move to a directory in your PATH
sudo mv lazykafka-* /usr/local/bin/lazykafka

Download the .exe file and add it to your PATH.

git clone https://github.com/nvh0412/lazykafka
cd lazykafka
cargo build --release

brew install lazykafka

# Connect to local Kafka
lazykafka

# Connect to specific broker(s)
lazykafka -b kafka1:9092 -b kafka2:9092

# With custom client ID and timeout
lazykafka -b localhost:9092 --client-id my-client --timeout 30

• Topic creation UI
• Producer UI for sending test messages
• Avro/Protobuf schema support
• Multi-cluster management
• Record export (JSON/CSV)
• Real-time tail mode

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

MIT