Apache Kafka

Test your event-driven architectures locally with built-in Kafka support.

Produce and Consume

ForgeReq allows you to easily switch between producing messages to a topic or tailing a topic as a consumer.

Producing

Select the Produce action, specify your brokers and topic, and write the JSON payload (or raw text) to be sent. Stash variables are fully supported for dynamically generating message keys or payload values.

Consuming

Switch to the Consume action to subscribe to a topic. ForgeReq will start streaming messages into a clean table view, showing the offset, partition, and parsed JSON payload of each event in real-time.

Security

For managed clusters (e.g., AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud), you can easily attach SASL/PLAIN authentication and toggle TLS verification. All credentials remain encrypted on your device.