Franz is a native macOS desktop client for Apache Kafka. It is not Open Source. I’m providing the source code here because I want users to be able to see the code they’re running and even change and build it for themselves if they want to. You are free to read the code, and to build and run the application yourself, on your own devices, but please don’t share any built artifacts with others. If you find Franz useful, please consider purchasing a license.Explore Topics: Browse through Kafka topics and records. Intelligently stream data to debug issues and publish new data directly to your topics.Manage Groups: Quickly check the state of your consumer groups and manage consumer offsets and group membership.Connect to MSK and Red Panda: Compatible with alternative implementations like Amazon Managed Kafka IAM and Red Panda out of the box.Filter & Process Data: Filter and process the data in your topics using a full Lua, programming environment with support for decoding JSON, Apache Avro, MessagePack and other formats.Visualize Your Data: Leverage the Lua programming environment to aggregate and visualize data from your topics.
Franz is a native macOS desktop client for Apache Kafka. It is not Open Source. I'm providing the source code here because I want users to be able to see the code they're...
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2025-09-29
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