Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Magnus Edenhill
https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
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 kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable delimeter (-D, defaults to newline), and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster (-b), topic (-t) and partition (-p).
In consumer mode kafkacat reads messages from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.
There's also support for the Kafka >=0.9 high-level balanced consumer, use
the -G <group> switch and provide a list of topics to join the group.
kafkacat also features a Metadata list (-L) mode to display the current state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.
kafkacat is fast and lightweight; statically linked it is no more than 150Kb.
On recent enough Debian systems:
apt-get install kafkacat
And on Mac OS X with homebrew installed:
brew install kafkacat
Otherwise follow directions below.
- librdkafka - https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
- libyajl (for JSON support, optional)
On Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt-get install librdkafka-dev libyajl-dev
./configure <usual-configure-options>
make
sudo make install
The bootstrap.sh build script will download and build the required dependencies, providing a quick and easy means of building kafkacat. Internet connectivity and wget/curl is required by this script. The resulting kafkacat binary will be linked statically to avoid runtime dependencies.
./bootstrap.sh
High-level balanced KafkaConsumer: subscribe to topic1 and topic2 (requires broker >=0.9.0 and librdkafka version >=0.9.1)
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -G mygroup topic1 topic2
Read messages from stdin, produce to 'syslog' topic with snappy compression
$ tail -f /var/log/syslog | kafkacat -b mybroker -t syslog -z snappy
Read messages from Kafka 'syslog' topic, print to stdout
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -t syslog
Produce messages from file (one file is one message)
$ kafkacat -P -b mybroker -t filedrop -p 0 myfile1.bin /etc/motd thirdfile.tgz
Read the last 2000 messages from 'syslog' topic, then exit
$ kafkacat -C -b mybroker -t syslog -p 0 -o -2000 -e
Consume from all partitions from 'syslog' topic
$ kafkacat -C -b mybroker -t syslog
Output consumed messages in JSON envelope:
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -t syslog -J
Output consumed messages according to format string:
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -t syslog -f 'Topic %t[%p], offset: %o, key: %k, payload: %S bytes: %s\n'
Read the last 100 messages from topic 'syslog' with librdkafka configuration parameter 'broker.version.fallback' set to '0.8.2.1' :
$ kafkacat -C -b mybroker -X broker.version.fallback=0.8.2.1 -t syslog -p 0 -o -100 -e
Metadata listing
$ kafkacat -L -b mybroker
Metadata for all topics (from broker 1: mybroker:9092/1):
3 brokers:
broker 1 at mybroker:9092
broker 2 at mybrokertoo:9092
broker 3 at thirdbroker:9092
16 topics:
topic "syslog" with 3 partitions:
partition 0, leader 3, replicas: 1,2,3, isrs: 1,2,3
partition 1, leader 1, replicas: 1,2,3, isrs: 1,2,3
partition 2, leader 1, replicas: 1,2, isrs: 1,2
topic "rdkafkatest1_auto_49f744a4327b1b1e" with 2 partitions:
partition 0, leader 3, replicas: 3, isrs: 3
partition 1, leader 1, replicas: 1, isrs: 1
topic "rdkafkatest1_auto_e02f58f2c581cba" with 2 partitions:
partition 0, leader 3, replicas: 3, isrs: 3
partition 1, leader 1, replicas: 1, isrs: 1
....
JSON metadata listing
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -L -J
Pretty-printed JSON metadata listing
$ kafkacat -b mybroker -L -J | jq .