# ntailio/ntk

> CLI and TUI for Apache Kafka: inspect clusters, consume and produce messages, watch consumer lag, and manage topics from a single binary with no JVM.

- Magnitude: 4.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 103 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-13, 10:07–12:27 UTC, ≈ 24 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-09 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/ntailio/ntk · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ntailio/ntk

## Useful for

- Inspect the last messages in a topic with ntk consume --from -10
- Watch consumer group lag and catch-up rate with ntk group watch
- Mirror a topic between clusters over a Unix socket keeping keys and headers

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-13 (UTC), 10:07–12:27: 102 → 103 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +24 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 103 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #190.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 25 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.2.0 (2026-10-12)

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-09 … 2026-10-13: 2, 0, 0, 100, 1

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #190

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-13 12:43 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.