Add beautified JSON configuration editor for connectors, topics, and clusters

[abhisheksingh94]

What is currently missing?

The UI currently lacks a Connector/Topic/Cluster configuration editor with a beautified JSON editor.
This would allow users to create, edit, and view connector configurations in a more user-friendly and structured format.

How could this be improved?

A similar feature existed in the now-abandoned BlazingKraft Kafka Management UI.
BlazingKraft provided the ability to:
• Create and edit connectors using a beautified JSON editor
• View connector configurations
• Delete connectors
• Manage cluster and topic settings intuitively
That tool also pulled most configuration values directly from the connector itself, displaying them in the JSON editor.
Additionally, it offered a raw JSON editor mode for users who wanted to make custom manual edits to the configuration.

It would be great if similar functionality could be imported or adapted from BlazingKraft, as it offered a clean and practical implementation of these features.

We are currently evaluating the feature set of Klaw as we really liked the Approval workflow for any edits that a team member requires, currently we use BlazingKraft in our UAT/DEV environments.

Is this a feature you would work on yourself?

• I plan to open a pull request for this feature

[aindriu-aiven]

hey @abhisheksingh94 thank you for the feedback, there are definitely a few things there that we (or maybe just I :D ) would be interested in improving.

I also have been thinking about how to improve the connector creation workflow and I will look into this a bit more but if you have anymore specific information or requests please add them here and I will see if there is anything that I can add in the short to medium term to the work I would like to do.