| Description: | kcat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka >=0.8, like a
netcat for Kafka.
In producer mode kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable
delimiter (-D, defaults to newline), and produces them to the provided Kafka
cluster (-b), topic (-t) and partition (-p).
In consumer mode kcat reads messages from a topic and partition and prints them
to stdout using the configured message delimiter.
There's also support for the Kafka >=0.9 high-level balanced consumer, use the
-G <group> switch and provide a list of topics to join the group.
kcat also features a Metadata list (-L) mode to display the current state of the
Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions. |
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