docs/_wiki/Home.md
---
layout: page
title: Home
permalink: /wiki/
nav_order: 1
---
<h1 align="center">
<br>
<img src="assets/icon.png" alt="Insulator" width="200">
<br>
Insulator
<br>
</h1>
<h4 align="center">A tool for devs to debug Kafka based applications and services</h4>
<br/>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/releases">
<img src="https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/workflows/Release/badge.svg"
alt="Release"/>
</a>
<a href="https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/actions?query=workflow%3ACI">
<img src="https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/workflows/CI/badge.svg"
alt="CI"/>
</a>
<a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/andrewinci/Insulator/test_coverage">
<img src="https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/b9b6bbebd21238c333ba/test_coverage"
alt="Coverage"/>
</a>
<a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/andrewinci/Insulator/maintainability">
<img src="https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/b9b6bbebd21238c333ba/maintainability"
alt="code quality"/>
</a>
<a href="https://snyk.io/test/github/andrewinci/Insulator">
<img src="https://snyk.io/test/github/andrewinci/Insulator/badge.svg"
alt="Snyk"/>
</a>
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://andrewinci.github.io/Insulator/wiki/">Wiki</a> •
<a href="#key-features">Key Features</a> •
<a href="#development">Development</a> •
<a href="#credits">Credits</a> •
<a href="#support">Support</a> •
<a href="#license">License</a>
</p>
<p align="center">
<img src="assets/insulator_dark_mode.gif">
</p>
## Installation
Download the binary from the latest release for your OS. Learn more [here](https://andrewinci.github.io/Insulator/wiki/Installation/).
[![Mac release](https://badgen.net/badge/icon/Mac%20Os?label=Download%20Latest%20Release&color=orange)](https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/releases/latest/download/insulator-mac.zip)
[![Windows release](https://badgen.net/badge/icon/Windows?label=Download%20Latest%20Release&color=orange)](https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/releases/latest/download/insulator-win.zip)
[![Debian release](https://badgen.net/badge/icon/Debian?label=Download%20Latest%20Release&color=orange)](https://github.com/andrewinci/Insulator/releases/latest/download/insulator-debian.zip)
![brew cask install andrewinci/tap/insulator](https://badgen.net/badge/icon/brew%20cask%20install%20andrewinci%2Ftap%2Finsulator?label=🍻%20Brew&color=orange)
## Key Features
* **Clusters**
* Authentication with: PLAN, SSL and SASL (SCRAM or PLAIN) authentication
* **Topics**
* List available topics
* Messages count and basic topic info
* Delete a topic
* Create a topic with basic configuration (Compaction policy, \#Partitions, ...)
* Topic configurations
* **Consumer**
* Avro and String deserialization
* Seek based on record timestamp
* Easy search and filtering
* **Schema registry**
* List subjects
* Show all schema versions for a given subject
* **Producer**
* Avro producer with **autocompletion** based on the schema
* String producer
* Send tombstones
* 🚧 **Consumer groups** 🚧
* List consumer groups
* Show topics, partitions and lags
* Delete consumer groups
* **Cross platform**
* Windows, macOS and Linux ready.
* **Dark/Light theme**
* **Auto-update**
* **ReadOnly mode**