zookeeper is not a recognized option when executing kafka-console-consumer.sh

Question

I'm learning how to use Kafka on this website link(except I'm using port 2182 in zookeeper), but it shows:

zookeeper is not a recognized option

after executing:

sudo ./bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic test --zookeeper localhost:2182

How to fix it?

Env:

kafka_2.11-2.1.0
zookeeper-3.4.10

Answer 1

I find the answer on the QUICKSTART:

Option zookeeper is deprecated, use --bootstrap-server instead.

Now it works:

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning

Answer 2

For windows

To start zookeeper

C:\kafka-2.12>.\bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

To start Kafka Broker

C:\kafka-2.12>.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

To Create topic

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

Start Producer

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test

To create consumer

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning

Topic creation With multi partition with replication factor 1

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic first_topic --create --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1

To get the list of topic created in system

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list

To get the description of topic created in system

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test

To delete topic test created in system

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-run-class.bat kafka.admin.TopicCommand --delete --topic test --zookeeper localhost:2181

To read message from beginning of topic test created in system(version>2.0)

C:\kafka-2.12\bin\windows>kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginn

Answer 3

For windows users use

bin/kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning

Answer 4

UPDATE

• From version 2.1.* the previous answers may not work, always check the official documentation , this answer provided with version 3.1.0 .

For Linux kernel base systems

./kafka-topics.sh --create --topic yourTopicname --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

For Windows systems

./kafka-topics.bat --create --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

No need to pass --from-beginning when there is no initial offset and overload the creation command with desired configs