pedromss / insulator

A client UI to inspect Kafka topics, consume, produce and much more

Insulator

A tool for devs to debug Kafka based applications and services

Wiki • Key Features • Development • Credits • Support • License

Installation

Download the binary from the latest release for your OS. Learn more here.

Key Features

• Clusters
  • Authentication with: PLAN, SSL and SASL (SCRAM or PLAIN) authentication
• Topics
  • List available topics
  • Messages count and basic topic info
  • Delete a topic
  • Create a topic with basic configuration (Compaction policy, #Partitions, ...)
  • Topic configurations
• Consumer
  • Avro and String deserialization
  • Seek based on record timestamp
  • Easy search and filtering
• Schema registry
  • List subjects
  • Show all schema versions for a given subject
• Producer
  • Avro producer with autocompletion based on the schema
  • String producer
  • Send tombstones
• 🚧 Consumer groups 🚧
  • List consumer groups
  • Show topics, partitions and lags
  • Delete consumer groups
• Cross platform
  • Windows, macOS and Linux ready.
• Dark/Light theme
• Auto-update
• ReadOnly mode

Development

The JDK version used is the adoptjdk 14.

To run the integration tests in headless mode, run

export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dtestfx.robot=glass -Dtestfx.headless=true -Dprism.order=sw -Dprism.text=t2k  -Dtestfx.setup.timeout=2500 -Dheadless.geometry=1920x1080-64"
./gradlew app:integrationTest

To package the app, JPackage is used. The call is wrapped into the gradle task app:packageApp. Notice that, to package the app in Ubuntu, binutils and fakeroot are required. See https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/343 for more info.

Build the documentation

The documentation for the github page is available under the /docs/ folder. To build and serve it, use the following.

bundle exec jekyll serve

Use a specific GH (pre)release in the bootstrap

At startup, the bootstrap checks if a DEV_MODE file with the release tag is available.

# MAC OS
echo "<version-tag>" > ~/Library/Application\ Support/insulator/DEV_MODE

# Linux
echo "<version-tag>" > ~/.config/Insulator/DEV_MODE

Credits

JetBrains

update4j

Support

License

GPL-3.0