DEBUG KAFKA AT RECORD SPEED

Find the message.
Understand the story.

Search, inspect, and safely produce records across every configured Kafka cluster—from one focused operations workspace.

Explore Message Explorer View documentation

$helm upgrade --install better-kafka ./charts/better-kafka

Product UI · sample data

TOOLS

Message explorer

Search, inspect, compare, export, and safely republish Kafka records.

Recordsorders.events.v1 · bounded snapshot

Live ready

Matched248of 1,000 scanned

Partitions12 / 12full sample

Window14m 58sevent time

Rate38.4/soffset delta

Messages over timeLast 15 min

Partition activityRecords

Keyorder-10482Offset18,442,901

{
  "eventId": "evt_demo_01J8K4R2",
  "orderId": "ord_demo_84271",
  "customerId": "cus_demo_1092",
  "status": "created",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "amount": 129.50
}

Self-hosted Helm chartApache Kafka, Bitnami & StrimziNo CDN dependency at runtimeOnline & offline licensing

MESSAGE INTELLIGENCE

From millions of records to the one that matters.

BetterKafka keeps scan boundaries, offset coverage, payload encoding, and mutation guardrails visible while you investigate.

Bounded search

Filter JSON paths, headers, metadata, timestamps, keys, values, and safe regular expressions with explicit scan telemetry.

Live tail

Pause and stop an SSE record stream with bounded duration, record counts, and partition/time distribution charts.

Full record context

Inspect UTF-8 or base64-safe keys and values, duplicate headers, offsets, timestamps, masks, and truncation indicators.

Governed produce

Compose single or NDJSON batches, preview validation, publish tombstones, and republish changes behind explicit permissions.

FLIGHT DECK

Trace flow without losing the truth.

Follow observed and configured relationships across applications, topics, consumer groups, brokers, and Kafka Connect. Rate, lag, sample coverage, and evidence remain visible.

Progressive grouping for large estates
Activity-over-time and consumer lag
Accessible map, matrix, and table views

Explore Flight Deck

Flight DeckObserved Kafka flows

Live

APPLICATIONSTOPICSCONSUMER GROUPS

APPLICATIONcheckout-api3,240 records/s

APPLICATIONpayment-service820 records/s

TOPICorders.created.v124 partitions

TOPICpayments.authorized.v112 partitions

TOPICinventory.reserved.v118 partitions

CONSUMER GROUPfraud-screen-v2Lag 12,480

CONSUMER GROUPinventory-reserverLag 228

Product UI reconstruction · Synthetic demonstration data

ONE OPERATIONS WORKSPACE

See, diagnose, and act—with guardrails.

See

Cluster health, broker storage, consumer lag, topology, schemas, and connectors.

Diagnose

Move from finding to partitions, offsets, records, evidence, and configuration.

Act

Use role-aware mutation plans for topics, offsets, ACLs, records, schemas, connectors, and rebalances.

READY TO OPERATE KAFKA BETTER?

Bring clarity to your Kafka estate.

Deploy the chart locally, or talk to us about licensing for your cluster fleet.

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