Binary package “kafkacat” in ubuntu jammy
generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
kafkacat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.
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In producer mode kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a
configurable delimiter and produces them to the provided Kafka
cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode kafkacat reads messages
from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the
configured message delimiter.
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kafkacat also features a Metadata list mode to display the current
state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.