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| KCAT(1) | General Commands Manual | KCAT(1) |
NAME¶
kcat — generic
producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
SYNOPSIS¶
kcat |
-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] |
kcat |
-C [generic options] [-o
offset] [-e]
[-O] [-u]
[-J] [-f
fmtstr] |
kcat |
-P [generic options] [-z
snappy | gzip]
[-p -1]
[file [...]] |
kcat |
-L [generic options] [-t
topic] |
DESCRIPTION¶
kcat 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 ),
kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a
configurable delimeter and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster,
topic and partition. In consumer mode ( -C ),
kcat reads messages from a topic and partition and
prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.
If neither -P or
-C are specified kcat
attempts to figure out the mode automatically based on stdin/stdout tty
types.
kcat 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
kcat with -h flag.
| December 9, 2014 | Debian |