NAME

       kafkacat — generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka

SYNOPSIS

       kafkacat -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]
       kafkacat -C [generic options] [-o offset] [-e] [-O] [-u] [-J] [-f fmtstr]
       kafkacat -P [generic options] [-z snappy | gzip] [-p -1] [file [...]]
       kafkacat -L [generic options] [-t topic]

DESCRIPTION

       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 ( -P ), kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable delimeter  and
       produces them to the provided Kafka cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode ( -C ), kafkacat reads
       messages from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.

       If  neither  -P  or  -C  are  specified  kafkacat  attempts to figure out the mode automatically based on
       stdin/stdout tty types.

       kafkacat 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 kafkacat with -h flag.

Debian                                          December 09, 2014                                    KAFKACAT(1)