Springwolf: Asyncapi documentation generating automatically | By Mohit Bajaj | March 2025

Find out how Springwolf can transform your architectural documentation focused on events. This step -by -step tutorial shows you how to automatically generate complete Asyncapi documentation for Kafka applications, improving developer experience and system understanding. Learn to implement, configure and take advantage of Springwolf to create interactive documentation that evolves with your code.

In the world of microservices today, asynchronous communication has roughly become the backbone of systems that must evolve and remain resilient when things go wrong. While the REST APIs have had swagger / Openapi for centuries to make the documentation a breeze, architectures motivated by events have been left in the dark … so far. Enter Springwolf – Mainly doing asynchronous API what Openapi has done for rest.

But why should you even worry about documenting your Kafka subjects and your message formats? Well, I went there; As your system develops, understanding how events flow become a nightmare. Are the new members of the team completely lost and honestly? Even experienced developers (myself included!) Can forget what messages of messages or what subjects connect to what.

I will guide you through the configuration of Springwolf to automatically generate complete Asyncapi documents for your Kafka applications. Believe me, at the end of that, you will always have, always …