Decentralized on purpose
Kanal runs like most of your other services: containerized, deployable by the team that owns it. No shared cluster. No central gatekeeper. Normal software.
Boring by design
Kafka and its ecosystem is elitist: “for experts, by experts”. Kanal gives you a visual UI editor for Kafka pipelines. The Kafka complexity is handled automatically. Your app logic stays clear, predictable, and easy to manage.
Truly end-to-end
A streaming app isn’t just a Kafka consumer. It pulls from a topic, enriches with reference data, and writes to downstream systems. Kanal treats this as a single concern, end-to-end.
Batteries included
Kanal ships with observability, operability, tracing, and debugging out of the box. If something goes wrong, you immediately know what and why.
Built for the core business
With Kanal, let developers spend their time on business logic only. The platform handles the ugly details.