kinesis-follow

A command line tool to print data from an AWS Kinesis stream.

Usage

▶ kinesis-follow --help
Usage of kinesis-follow:
  -region string
    	AWS region the stream exists in (default "eu-west-1")
  -sleep int
    	How long to sleep between polling for new messages in ms (default 1000)
  -stream string
    	Name of the string you want to follow

Installation

Assuming you have golang installed and setup correctly:

go get github.com/uswitch/kinesis-follow
go install github.com/uswitch/kinesis-follow

Permissions

It is assumed that you will have credentials for AWS setup as you would to ordinarily use the AWS SDK - https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go#configuring-credentials

TODO

• Get a shard iterator with options other than LATEST
• Don't quit on keypress