NAME

       kcat — generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

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

Debian                                          December 09, 2014                                        KCAT(1)