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Heh we have the exact same status in Greece. It’s sad the upstream is so sloppy.

Show HN: Kafkatop 2.0 – top for Kafka – rewritten in Go with partition analytics

https://github.com/sivann/kafkatop

Kafkatop is a handy real-time monitoring CLI tool for Apache Kafka, that displays consumer lag and event rates in a clean, top-like interface. It can assess when consumers will catch up, and provides indicators for partition distribution healthv2 is a go rewrite from the original Python PEX. The main reason was the python version dependency on confluent's librdkafka which was not maintained any...

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Re:Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:28AM (#45246398)
Thanks! you can list topics and also export ISR per partitions in json with kafkatop. As this is mostly a real-time monitor, what properties of topics would you be interested of monitoring? Would that be ISR % per topic perhaps?

Show HN: Kafkatop, top-like CLI for Kafka

https://github.com/sivann/kafkatop

Hey HN, for those of you tired of running kafka-consumer-groups.sh and similar tools, here's a small real-time monitoring CLI tool for Apache Kafka, that displays consumer lag and event rates in a clean, top-like interface. You can quickly assess which consumers are lagging and when they will catch up.I've made this to quickly assess the health of remote on-premises clusters which most of the...

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Show HN: CLI app to monitor consumption and production rates on Kafka broker

https://github.com/sivann/kafkatop

If you monitor lots of remote app kafka deployments without centralized monitoring (maybe due to security constraints) this may be of use; it will help you determine your application ingest/egest health by monitoring kafka topic and consumer group rates, while providing some rough ETA estimates.It can also be used to massively collect lag and rates statistics (in json) via your orchestration...

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