Kafka flows through your terminal. Kaskade brings topic administration and record inspection into one fast, keyboard-driven interface, with flexible deserialization and secure connections built in.
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Features
Kafka administration
- Browse topics, partitions, consumer groups, and group members
- Inspect topic configuration, lag, replicas, and record counts
- Create, edit, delete, and filter topics without leaving the TUI
- Refresh topic metadata and metrics automatically or manually
Record consumption
- Deserialize keys and values as bytes, primitives, JSON, Avro, or Protobuf, including Confluent Schema Registry and native Apicurio Registry v3
- Resolve Registry Protobuf messages and referenced schemas without generated classes
- Select raw, Apicurio, or Confluent framing independently for local key and value deserializers
- Filter records by key, value, header, or partition
- Start from the earliest offsets or explicit partition/offset selections
- Preserve malformed keys, values, and headers with BYTES fallback metadata
- Present bytes as Base64, hex, byte arrays, or escaped bytes with encoding metadata
- Copy or export individual records as JSON
Connections and configuration
- Reuse Kafka, Registry, and AWS settings from an INI client profile
- Pass Kafka and Registry client properties directly from the command line
- Configure consumer and admin operation deadlines for higher-latency clusters
- Connect through TLS, SASL, Confluent Cloud, or Amazon MSK IAM authentication
- Use Confluent Schema Registry, native Apicurio Registry, or Apicurio's Confluent-compatible API
Terminal experience
- Navigate entirely by keyboard with arrow and Vim-style shortcuts
- Customize themes and keybindings
- Copy data through an OSC 52-compatible terminal
Quick start
Homebrew
brew install kaskade
pipx
pipx install kaskade
Connect to Kafka
Admin view:
kaskade admin -b my-kafka:9092
Consumer view:
kaskade consumer -b my-kafka:9092 -t my-topic
Usage
For configuration and usage examples, see the Kaskade usage guide.
Development
For development instructions, see the Kaskade development guide.
Releases
See GitHub Releases for release notes and downloadable artifacts.
Questions
For Q&A go to GitHub Discussions.
Security
Report suspected vulnerabilities privately by following the Kaskade security policy.
Donations
If Kaskade is useful to you, consider supporting its development on GitHub Sponsors.
AI Assistance
This project uses AI-assisted development tools. Some code and documentation may be generated or revised with AI assistance. All AI-assisted changes are reviewed and tested by the maintainer before they are included.
Acknowledgements
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