Command-line tool

kcat

brew/kcat

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Generic command-line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install kcat

Linux

brew install kcat

Consume messages starting with the newest offset

kcat -C -t topic -b brokers

Consume messages starting with the oldest offset and exit after the last message is received

kcat -C -t topic -b brokers -o beginning -e

Consume messages as a Kafka consumer group

kcat -G group_id topic -b brokers

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