K-Tester

K-Tester is a simple tool to get, verify & send kafka messages inside a topic.

Why this library?

Sometime exclude the kafka as a problem in a bug of an application can be very usefull for debugging.

This tool permit to know quickly is a message is currently present and don't put any problem to the app. Or send a message to verify the behavior of the app.

Functions

You can:

get messages for a topic
copy a message
send messages
filter messages
save multiple configuration
import/export configuration
list & select topics of the brokers
connect to the brokers with the Security Protocol (SASL, SSL)
Activate GZip decompression for the messages

More are about to come. Don't hesitate to propose. Plan for the future:

Specify the groupid (verify if all messages of the group has been retreived)
Clean the messages for a group
Choose display ordering
Improve performance for heavy messages

More to know

K-Tester is made with dotnet BlazorServer technology.

About data configurations, no database. All data are saved inside the local storage of your browser. If you change your browser, you can export & import the configurations.

By default, groupid used to connect is a generated GUID. This one is refreshed each time a new query is asked.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed information about how to contribute to the project.

Launch it

1 - Docker

The project is pushed in docker hub. On a machine with docker installed you can run the command:

docker run -p 5000:80 vptech/k-tester

and go to http://localhost:5000 on your favorite browser.

2 - Dotnet

Clone the repository, run the project with (you need to have dotnet 7.0 sdk installed):

dotnet run