kafka-console-partitionconsumer
NOTE: this tool is deprecated in favour of the more general and more powerful
kafka-console-consumer.
A simple command line tool to consume a partition of a topic and print the messages on the standard output.
Installation
go get github.com/Shopify/sarama/tools/kafka-console-partitionconsumer
Usage
# Minimum invocation
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=4 -brokers=kafka1:9092
# It will pick up a KAFKA_PEERS environment variable
export KAFKA_PEERS=kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka3:9092
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=4
# You can specify the offset you want to start at. It can be either
# `oldest`, `newest`, or a specific offset number
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=3 -offset=oldest
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -topic=test -partition=2 -offset=1337
# Display all command line options
kafka-console-partitionconsumer -help