console-consumer

Command Info

This tool is used to run a Kafka Consumer from the command line. It will consume records from Kafka and output them in the terminal.

Command Usage

Usage of console-consumer:
  -bootstrap-host string
    	kafka bootstrap host (default "localhost")
  -bootstrap-port int
    	kafka bootstrap port (default 9092)
  -client-id string
    	client-id to pass along to kafka (default "warpstream-cli")
  -enable-tls
    	dial with TLS or not
  -from-beginning
    	start with the earliest message present in the topic partition rather than the latest message
  -kafka-log-level string
    	the log level to set on the kafka client, accepted values are DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR (default "WARN")
  -max-messages int
    	he maximum number of messages to consume before exiting. If not 0, consumption is continual.
  -sasl-password string
    	password for SASL authentication
  -sasl-scram
    	uses sasl scram authentication (sasl plain by default)
  -sasl-username string
    	username for SASL authentication
  -tls-client-cert-file string
    	path to the X.509 certificate file in PEM format for the client
  -tls-client-key-file string
    	path to the X.509 private key file in PEM format for the client
  -tls-server-ca-cert-file string
    	path to the X.509 certificate file in PEM format for the server certificate authority. If not specified, the host's root certificate pool will be used for server certificate verification.
  -topic string
    	the topic to consume on

Example

$ warpstream cli-beta console-consumer -topic foo -from-beginning

Every new record written to topic: foo will be printed below (ctrl + c then ctrl + d to exit)
[foo::0] (0) =hello
[foo::0] (1) =world
[foo::0] (2) =this
[foo::0] (3) =is
[foo::0] (4) =my
[foo::0] (5) =topic