kafka-console-partitionconsumer

README

kafka-console-partitionconsumer

NOTE: this tool is deprecated in favour of the more general and more powerful kafka-console-consumer.

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

Installation

go get github.com/IBM/sarama/tools/kafka-console-partitionconsumer

Usage

# Minimum invocation
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=4 -brokers=kafka1:9092

# It will pick up a KAFKA_PEERS environment variable
export KAFKA_PEERS=kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka3:9092
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=4

# You can specify the offset you want to start at. It can be either
# `oldest`, `newest`, or a specific offset number
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=3 -offset=oldest
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=2 -offset=1337

# Display all command line options
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -help