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kafka-console-consumer

A simple command line tool to consume partitions of a topic and print the messages on the standard output.

Usage

Minimum invocation

    kafka-console-consumer -topic=test -brokers=kafka1:9092

In order to configure kafka brokers environment variable can be used

    export KAFKA_PEERS=kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka3:9092
    kafka-console-consumer -topic=test

You can specify the offset you want to start at. It can be either oldest, newest. The default is newest.

    kafka-console-consumer -topic=test -offset=oldest
    kafka-console-consumer -topic=test -offset=newest

You can specify the partition(s) you want to consume as a comma-separated list. The default is all.

    kafka-console-consumer -topic=test -partitions=1,2,3

To display all command line options:

    kafka-console-consumer -help