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KafkaManager
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KafkaManager is a tool for managing Apache Kafka and provides GUI-based metric monitoring and management of Kafka clusters.

KafkaManager supports the following operations:

-  Manage multiple Kafka clusters.
-  Easy inspection of cluster states (topics, consumers, offsets, partitions, replicas, and nodes)
-  Run preferred replica election.
-  Generate partition assignments with option to select brokers to use.
-  Run reassignment of partition (based on generated assignments).
-  Create a topic with optional topic configurations (Multiple Kafka cluster versions are supported).
-  Delete a topic (only supported on 0.8.2+ and **delete.topic.enable=true** is set in broker configuration).
-  Batch generate partition assignments for multiple topics with option to select brokers to use.
-  Batch run reassignment of partitions for multiple topics.
-  Add partitions to an existing topic.
-  Update configurations for an existing topic.
-  Optionally enable JMX polling for broker-level and topic-level metrics.
-  Optionally filter out consumers that do not have ids/ owner / & offsets/ directories in ZooKeeper.