kcat — generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka

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

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

       kcat also features a metadata list mode ( -L ), to display the current state of the Kafka cluster and its
       topics and partitions.

       kcat — generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka

       For a more extensive help and some simple examples, run kcat with -h flag.

Debian                                          December 09, 2014                                        KCAT(1)

kcat-C  |  -P  | -L-ttopic [-ppartition] -bbrokers [, ...] [-Ddelim] [-Kdelim] [-ccnt] [-Xlist]
            [-Xprop=val] [-Xdump] [-ddbg [, ...]] [-q] [-v] [-Z] [specific options]
       kcat-C [generic options] [-ooffset] [-e] [-O] [-u] [-J] [-ffmtstr]
       kcat-P [generic options] [-zsnappy | gzip] [-p-1] [file [...]]
       kcat-L [generic options] [-ttopic]