NAME¶
kafkacat —
generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
SYNOPSIS¶
kafkacat |
-C | -P |
-L -t
topic [-p
partition] -b
brokers [, ...]
[-D delim]
[-K delim]
[-c cnt]
[-X list]
[-X prop=val]
[-X dump]
[-d dbg [,
...]] [-q]
[-v] [-Z] [specific
options] |
kafkacat |
-C [generic options] [-o
offset] [-e]
[-O] [-u]
[-J] [-f
fmtstr] |
kafkacat |
-P [generic options] [-z
snappy | gzip]
[-p -1]
[file [...]] |
kafkacat |
-L [generic options] [-t
topic] |
DESCRIPTION¶
kafkacat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for
Apache Kafka 0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.
In producer mode ( -P ),
kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a
configurable delimeter and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster,
topic and partition. In consumer mode ( -C ),
kafkacat reads messages from a topic and partition
and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.
If neither -P or
-C are specified kafkacat
attempts to figure out the mode automatically based on stdin/stdout tty
types.
kafkacat also features a metadata list
mode ( -L ), to display the current state of the
Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.
SEE ALSO¶
For a more extensive help and some simple examples, run
kafkacat with -h flag.
