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Re:Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka wit... by pandemic_region on Sunday August 09, 2020 @03:35PM (#24102213)
you must not have looked for long, most of the other OSS tools mentioned in this thread exist for several years already.
Re:Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka wit... by secondcoming on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:44PM (#24104670)
These ones (stolen from another comment)?

> CMAK, AKHQ, Kafdrop, Kowl, Conduktor, Kafkatool

Maybe if they had been given better, more descriptive, names they'd have been easier to fit

Re:Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka wit... by weeco on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:00AM (#24106714)
Some of these had more descriptive names, but the apache software foundation doesn't allow names with "Kafka" as part of the name because it's a protected trademark apparently.
Re:Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka wit... by tchiotludo on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:43PM (#24148756)
I confirm ! I need to rename KafkaHQ to AKHQ : https://twitter.com/akhq_io/status/1240037275565727744 Apache Committee ask to rename the project as CMAK and others ...