The Ultimate Guide to Using Offset Explorer: A GUI for Kafka on Windows
Introduction
Offset Explorer is a user-friendly GUI application specifically designed for managing Kafka clusters on Windows. It empowers you to explore topics, delve into message content, and effortlessly handle consumer offsets, all from a convenient graphical interface.
Installation
Offset Explorer is free for personal use.
Download from the official site and Install: https://www.kafkatool.com/download.html
Add a new connection in Offset Explorer.
On successful connection, you would get the next screen.
Viewing topics and partitions.
Creating topics
Add message to topics
Viewing data inside partitions by clicking on the green button on the partition page.
Viewing data in different formats like JSON, XML, String etc
Viewing consumer offset
Saving Individual Messages to local disk
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