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Swifka for Mac

Lightweight, read-only Kafka monitor for safely checking clusters, topics, and consumer lag.

By Ender-Wang. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

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Swifka at a glance

Version
1.0.0
Released
21 February 2026
Download size
4.7 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
Ender-Wang
GitHub stars
43

About Swifka

A native macOS Kafka monitor. Read-only by design.

Screenshots

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How to install Swifka on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Swifka and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.0.0 from Ender-Wang's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Swifka show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Swifka-v1.0.0.dmg (4.7 MB).

What is new in Swifka 1.0.0

Swifka is a native macOS Kafka monitoring client. Read-only by design — safe to point at production with zero risk of accidental writes.

🔌 **Cluster & Connection**
- Multi-cluster management with pin, clone, drag-to-reorder, and batch operations
- SASL authentication (PLAIN, SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512) with Keychain-secured credentials
- TLS support for encrypted connections
- Color-coded ping latency indicator (green < 50ms < yellow < 200ms < red)
- Menu bar resident mode with quick cluster switching and page navigation
- Auto-reconnection with exponential backoff

📊 **Dashboard**
- At-a-glance cluster health: broker count, topic count, partition count
- Broker and topic summary tables
- Active alert badge with alert history panel

📁 **Topics**
- Searchable topic list with internal topic toggle
- Expandable partition detail: leader, replicas, ISR, watermarks, message count
- Sortable columns across all partition metadata
- Summary bar with aggregate counts

💬 **Messages**
- Browse messages by topic, partition, and offset range
- Message decoding: UTF-8, Hex, Base64, JSON pretty-print, Protobuf, Avro
- Schema Registry integration — auto-decode Confluent wire format (Protobuf, Avro, JSON Schema)
- Import `.proto` files with per-topic message type selection
- Advanced search: keyword, regex, JSON path (e.g., `user.email:john@`), key/value scope
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