Dear Kafka Developers, My name is *Surafel Temesgen*, and I’d like to introduce you to a project I’ve been building called *Debo*—an open-source, desktop-based infrastructure management tool designed to provide unified control and monitoring across components in the Hadoop ecosystem, including *Apache Kafka*. ------------------------------ 💡 What is Debo?
*Debo* is a lightweight application (written in C) that acts as a centralized management interface for distributed systems. It supports: - *Kafka*, *Zookeeper*, *HDFS*, *YARN* - *Flink*, *Spark*, *Hive*, *HBase* - And other components like Atlas, Ranger, Tez, Hue, Oozie, Pig, Presto, Phoenix, etc. The idea is to reduce operational overhead by giving users a single interface to monitor status and control services like Kafka clusters, brokers, and optionally, consumers or topics. ------------------------------ 🚀 Incubator Proposal & Community Feedback Debo has been proposed to the Apache Incubator and is currently in need of *3 PMC sponsors* to proceed. I welcome your feedback and support on the discussion thread here: 🔗 https://lists.apache.org/thread/bp0rqvf4xvmdb3n1m2fzhwym95841s5v Despite not being incubated yet, I plan to *release a beta version in the coming weeks*, including Kafka-related functionality and usage instructions. ------------------------------ 🙏 Call for Kafka-Specific Feedback I’m particularly interested in Kafka developers' thoughts on: - What Kafka management features are most valuable in a lightweight tool like Debo - Ideas for interacting with brokers, topics, or monitoring consumers - Possible feature requests for debugging or lightweight control operations ------------------------------ 📺 Learn More I’ve set up a YouTube channel where I’ll post video tutorials and walkthroughs: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@Debo_teamwork You can also explore the source code and follow development here: 🛠️ https://github.com/Debo-et/debo-teamwork ------------------------------ 🧭 Coming Soon - Updated README.md with full usage instructions - Step-by-step tutorials (with Kafka examples) - Beta release with early Kafka integration ------------------------------ Thank you in advance for your time and feedback. I’d love to collaborate with the Kafka community to make Debo useful and relevant! Warm regards, *Surafel Temesgen* 🔗 https://github.com/Debo-et/debo-teamwork
