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AKHQ vs Kaskade: catalog facts
AKHQ	Kaskade
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Command line
Browse topic data with live tail Consumer group lag monitoring	Browse and manage Kafka topics in a terminal UI Decode records as JSON, Avro, or Protobuf
You have to deploy and run the server yourself Only useful if you operate Kafka	Requires access to a Kafka cluster
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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