kaskade ☆

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Description:
TUI for Kafka

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 4.0.6@1 | Tracked Since: Dec 6, 2025

Links: Homepage | GitHub | formulae.brew.sh

Stars: 980 | Forks: 19 | Language: Python | Category: Developer tools

Tags: kafka tui cli messaging devops

Install: brew install kaskade

About:
Kaskade is a terminal user interface (TUI) designed for interacting with Apache Kafka clusters. It provides an intuitive, keyboard-driven interface for viewing topics, consuming messages, and managing consumer groups without leaving the command line. This tool enhances developer productivity by simplifying Kafka debugging and data inspection in a lightweight, terminal-native environment.

Key Features:

Interactive terminal UI with vim-like keybindings
Real-time message consumption and inspection
Topic and consumer group management
Schema Registry integration support

Use Cases:

Debugging Kafka message flows in development environments
Monitoring real-time data streams on production servers
Inspecting topic configurations and consumer group offsets

Alternatives:

kcat – kcat is a CLI-based tool focused on message production/consumption, while Kaskade provides a full interactive TUI experience
kafka-ui – kafka-ui is a web-based dashboard requiring a browser, whereas Kaskade runs entirely in the terminal

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 20, 2025 8:13pm	4.0.6	1	VERSION_BUMP	5a67e6cc
Dec 6, 2025 1:50am		1	VERSION_BUMP	3b67b5ec
Nov 7, 2025 6:14am		0	VERSION_BUMP	596ac7e8
Oct 11, 2025 8:15am		4	VERSION_BUMP	7d66b49f
Sep 23, 2025 8:15am		3	VERSION_BUMP	58bdd5a5
Sep 12, 2025 1:40pm		2	VERSION_BUMP	8ca73027
Jan 8, 2025 6:26pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	86ce948a
Dec 27, 2024 12:09am		0	VERSION_BUMP	da53a191
Dec 26, 2024 10:59pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a879aad6
Oct 12, 2024 12:27am		0	VERSION_BUMP	a4476a57
Oct 11, 2024 6:41pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	e658d224
Sep 14, 2024 11:00am		0	VERSION_BUMP	7ec0c0d6
Jul 14, 2024 12:16pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	9a039824