calinora/pilot repository overview

⁠Calinora Pilot

Calinora Pilot is an all-in-one, container-native tool that live-samples Kafka traffic, scores partition activity, exposes management APIs (including intelligent partition redistribution), and displays everything in a modern React dashboard.

⁠Quick Start

docker run -d \
  --name pilot \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -e KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=your-kafka-broker:9092 \
  calinora/pilot:latest

Access the dashboard at http://localhost:8080

⁠Features

• Live Traffic Sampling - real-time Kafka partition activity monitoring
• Intelligent Rebalancing - rack-aware partition redistribution with a 10-phase proposal pipeline
• Self-Healing - automatic critical repairs and rebalancing with configurable time windows
• Modern Dashboard - React UI for cluster visualization, message browsing, and management
• AI Chat & MCP - optional AI assistant and Model Context Protocol server with 56 tools
• Management APIs - RESTful API with 86+ endpoints for full cluster operations
• Security - SSL/TLS, SASL (PLAIN, SCRAM, GSSAPI, OAUTHBEARER), OAuth2/OIDC UI auth
• Container Native - single distroless binary (~20MB), Docker and Kubernetes ready

⁠Docker Compose

services:
  broker:
    image: apache/kafka:latest
    environment:
      KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
      KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker,controller
      KAFKA_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://:9092,CONTROLLER://:9093
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://broker:9092
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@broker:9093
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1

  pilot:
    image: calinora/pilot:latest
    depends_on: [broker]
    ports: ["8080:8080"]
    environment:
      KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: broker:9092

⁠Essential Configuration

⁠License

Pilot works without a license for all monitoring and read-only operations. A license unlocks management features (reassignments, config changes, maintenance mode, self-healing). Visit calinora.io⁠ or email [email protected]⁠.

⁠Health Checks

• Liveness: GET /api/v1/health
• Readiness: GET /api/v1/ready

⁠Documentation

Full documentation including configuration reference, deployment guides, API reference, and feature guides:

docs.calinora.io⁠

Built with ❤️ by Calinora⁠