That is written up here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Command+Line+and+Related+Improvements
Initially there will be a client API for command line but since it works on the wire protocol anyone can either wrap the API or go directly to the wire protocol to implement it however they want. Work for that has already gotten underway parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1694 /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:37 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Nowadays, all kafka administration work (add, tear down node, topic > management, throughput monitor) are done by various different tool talk to > brokers, zookeeper etc. Is there a plan for core team to build a central > universal server providing webservice API to do all the admin work? > > Best, > Siyuan >