Building a GUI Application for Viewing and Searching Apache Kafka Messages

Abstract

Apache Kafka is a scalable messaging system that follows Publish-Subscribe Model as its core. Several traditional messaging system like MSMQ, RabbitMQ exist but they have limitations in terms of performance and throughput. Kafka, developed at LinkedIn is the latest messaging technology being adopted by most of the top internet companies. The purpose of this paper is to provide a GUI and search tool, to view and monitor messages insideKafka.