confluent kafka topic consume

Description

Consume messages from a Kafka topic.

Truncated message headers will be printed if they exist.

confluent kafka topic consume <topic> [flags]

Flags

    --group string                        Consumer group ID. (default "confluent_cli_consumer_<randomly-generated-id>")
-b, --from-beginning                      Consume from beginning of the topic.
    --offset int                          The offset from the beginning to consume from.
    --partition int32                     The partition to consume from. (default -1)
    --key-format string                   Format of message key as "string", "avro", "integer", "jsonschema", or "protobuf". Note that schema references are not supported for Avro. (default "string")
    --value-format string                 Format message value as "string", "avro", "integer", "jsonschema", or "protobuf". Note that schema references are not supported for Avro. (default "string")
    --print-key                           Print key of the message.
    --full-header                         Print complete content of message headers.
    --delimiter string                    The delimiter separating each key and value. (default "\t")
    --timestamp                           Print message timestamp in milliseconds.
    --config strings                      A comma-separated list of configuration overrides ("key=value") for the consumer client.
    --config-file string                  The path to the configuration file for the consumer client, in JSON or Avro format.
    --schema-registry-context string      The Schema Registry context under which to look up schema ID.
    --schema-registry-endpoint string     Endpoint for Schema Registry cluster.
    --schema-registry-api-key string      Schema registry API key.
    --schema-registry-api-secret string   Schema registry API secret.
    --api-key string                      API key.
    --api-secret string                   API secret.
    --cluster string                      Kafka cluster ID.
    --context string                      CLI context name.
    --environment string                  Environment ID.

Global Flags

-h, --help            Show help for this command.
    --unsafe-trace    Equivalent to -vvvv, but also log HTTP requests and responses which might contain plaintext secrets.
-v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).

Examples

Consume items from topic “my-topic” and press “Ctrl-C” to exit.

confluent kafka topic consume my-topic --from-beginning

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