[mrweasel]

There's a lot great and developing tools for Kafka right now. CMAK doesn't seem that active, and I believe it was one of the tools we quickly gave up on, because it was a little difficult to get going.

Currently we're using Kowl, and we're looking into Cruise Control.

One limiting factor is that many of these tools doesn't support authentication and RBAC, Kowl does, and that has been a requirement for at least some of our projects, where not everyone is allowed to view certain topics.

[weeco]

I'm curious what makes you look into other solutions than Kowl then? :). We are happy to add anything that is desired in the community. Now that Kafka connect support is also there we will most likely just expand the existing features (e.g. adding, editing schemas etc.).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the Kowl authors. I do not intend to hijack that post for Kowl content though!

[mrweasel]

For ourselves, nothing really. For a customer: They really don't want to pay the licens once it is required, and they need ActiveDirectory authentication or KeyCloak. I've already been in contact with someone working on Kowl, and we're just waiting on OIDC support.

Really we just want an alternative to Kowl, if a customer asks for suggestions. For our own use, we plan on keeping Kowl.

[germanosin]

UI for Apache Kafka supports OIDC (https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/master/guides/SSO...) and basic authentication (https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/683ab231f436893b3...)