> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.alginte.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Alginte — Visual Kafka Management & Streams Builder

> Alginte is a self-hosted web app for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka: browse topics and messages, manage consumer groups, connectors and schemas, and build Kafka Streams topologies visually.

Alginte is a **self-hosted web application for Apache Kafka** — browse topics and
messages, manage consumer groups, connectors, and schemas, and build **Kafka Streams
topologies visually** with a drag-and-drop editor and SpEL expressions. It runs next
to your cluster; no data leaves your infrastructure.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/installation/quickstart">
    Run Alginte against your cluster in one command
  </Card>

  <Card title="Introduction" icon="circle-info" href="/introduction">
    What Alginte is, how it's built, and its trust model
  </Card>

  <Card title="Installation" icon="download" href="/installation/docker">
    Docker image or the standalone fat JAR
  </Card>

  <Card title="Configuration" icon="sliders" href="/operate/configuration">
    Point Alginte at your brokers, Schema Registry, Connect, and ksqlDB
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What you can do

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Topics & messages" icon="list">
    Inspect topics, partitions, offsets, and produce/consume records with schema-aware deserialization.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Consumers, Connect & schemas" icon="diagram-project">
    Manage consumer groups and lag, Kafka Connect connectors, and Schema Registry subjects.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Streams topology builder" icon="sitemap">
    Compose sources, processors (map, filter, aggregate, join…), and sinks on a visual canvas.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  Alginte binds to **localhost by default** — it's a trusted-operator tool out of the
  box. Before exposing it on a network, read [Authentication](/operate/authentication)
  and the boundary notes in [Run with the JAR](/installation/jar).
</Note>