Ktea - pronounced "K-tea" - is a TUI client for Kafka that allows you to see the topics and consumer groups, produce and consume messages, etc.

It's a bit rough and you may need to configure the Meta button for your terminal (can be a bit of a PITA on MacOS), but otherwise it may be useful!

Another way of working with Kafka in more or less visual way is kafka-ui from Provectus. It's a web GUI, but it can be spun up locally in Docker.

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