First impression

[ozimakov-rh]

Aside from a few minor UI bugs that are easy to work around, the console looks mature and works very well. It provides most of the essential functionality I expect from Kafka UI and even more. I have just a couple of thoughts you may consider:

Security

• Configuring authentication and authorization. It may make sense if the console could rely on OpenShift IDP and roles or Keycloak.
• Keys and values should be masked — shown as ***** and the Unmask button to load up the actual value (in separate request/response) or (for the most sensitive production data) - even without the button.

UX nice-to-haves

• Supporting Avro keys/values
• Kafkacat experience in looking up a record by key/value.
• Live view of consumer groups: having a live graph would be cool to see.
• Apicurio service registry integration to see/validate a message schema.

Deployment

• It's nice to have separate CRD provided by the Strimzi operator.
• It would be great if the console could operate KafkaCluster and KafkaTopic CRDs.

All the best,
--Oleg