What do you like best about the product?

What we appreciate with kPow is that it gives you all the good features available in the market in one tool :
- Beautiful UI/UX like Kowl
- Efficient topic message searching like Kafka UI
- Excellent to watch and edit topics configuration, even better than Kafka UI
- Able to browse and edit schema registry efficiently like Kafka UI

And in addition, you got multiple bonus features :
- Useful and beautiful monitoring of cluster, connectors, consumers, etc...
- Better consumer offset reset management
- Fully customizable auth mechanism from very simple to very complex
- Fully integrated Kafka Stream topology display and monitoring using kpow-streams-agent
- Human support with excellent technical understanding
- Open about feature requests that can bring value to the product, with a good following after suggestion is made
- Open-minded about license pricing for a small-sized company
- And so on...

What do you dislike about the product?

As for me, the only downside of this tool is that you have to launch it on your own, using docker container, AWS Marketplace, etc...

I would love to have managed cloud offer where you give a way to connect to your Kafka Cluster (through VPC Peering for example) and everything is handled on kPow side :
- Create a custom VPC for the customer
- Mount a kPow instance on the VPC
- Create the peering between this VPC managed by kPow and your VPC
- Manage authentication/authorization using kPow online dashboard

Such offer could open great opportunities with, for example, a free community version (run on your own) and a priced cloud managed version.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our objective was to :
- Monitor our Kafka brokers' state
- Browse our current topics and their contents
- Follow the state of our consumers and manage their offsets

All these in an easy-to-use HMI without learning how to do it through complex Kafka command lines.