confluent local services kafka produce¶

Important

The confluent local commands are intended for a single-node development environment and are not suitable for a production environment. The data that are produced are transient and are intended to be temporary. For production-ready workflows, see Confluent Platform.

Description¶

Produce data to topics. By default this command produces non-Avro data to the Apache Kafka® cluster on localhost.

confluent local services kafka produce <topic> [flags]

Tip

You must export the path as an environment variable for each terminal session, or set the path to your Confluent Platform installation in your shell profile. For example:

cat ~/.bash_profile
export CONFLUENT_HOME=<path-to-confluent>
export PATH="${CONFLUENT_HOME}/bin:$PATH"

Flags¶

--cloud                            Consume from Confluent Cloud.
--config string                    Change the Confluent Cloud configuration file. (default "$HOME/.confluent/config.json")
--value-format string              Format output data: avro, json, or protobuf.

--batch-size int                   Number of messages to send in a single batch if they are not being sent synchronously. (default 200)
--bootstrap-server string          The server(s) to connect to. The broker list string has the form HOST1:PORT1,HOST2:PORT2.
--compression-codec string         The compression codec: either "none", "gzip", "snappy", "lz4", or "zstd". If specified without value, then it defaults to "gzip".
--line-reader string               The class name of the class to use for reading lines from stdin. By default each line is read as a separate message. (default "kafka.tools.ConsoleProducer$LineMessageReader")
--max-block-ms int                 The max time that the producer will block for during a send request. (default 60000)
--max-memory-bytes int             The total memory used by the producer to buffer records waiting to be sent to the server. (default 33554432)
--max-partition-memory-bytes int   The buffer size allocated for a partition. When records are received which are small than this size, the producer will attempt to optimistically group them together until this size is reached. (default 16384)
--message-send-max-retries int     This property specifies the number of retries before the producer gives up and drops this message. Brokers can fail receiving a message for multiple reasons, and being unavailable transiently is just one of them. (default 3)
--metadata-expiry-ms int           The amount of time in milliseconds before a forced metadata refresh. This will occur independent of any leadership changes. (default 300000)
--producer-property string         A mechanism to pass user-defined properties in the form key=value to the producer.
--producer.config string           Producer config properties file. Note that [producer-property] takes precedence over this config.
--property strings                 A mechanism to pass user-defined properties in the form key=value to the message reader. This allows custom configuration for a user-defined message reader. Default properties include:
                                          parse.key=true|false
                                          key.separator=<key.separator>
                                          ignore.error=true|false
--request-required-acks string     The required ACKs of the producer requests. (default 1)
--request-timeout-ms int           The ACK timeout of the producer requests. Value must be positive. (default 1500)
--retry-backoff-ms int             Before each retry, the producer refreshes the metadata of relevant topics. Since leader election takes a bit of time, this property specifies the amount of time that the producer waits before refreshing the metadata. (default 100)
--socket-buffer-size int           The size of the TCP RECV size. (default 102400)
--sync                             If set, message send requests to brokers arrive synchronously.
--timeout int                      If set and the producer is running in asynchronous mode, this gives the maximum amount of time a message will queue awaiting sufficient batch size. The value is given in ms. (default 1000)

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¶

Produce Avro data to a topic called mytopic1 on a development Kafka cluster on localhost. Assumes Confluent Schema Registry is listening at http://localhost:8081.

confluent local services kafka produce mytopic1 --value-format avro --property value.schema='{"type":"record","name":"myrecord","fields":[{"name":"f1","type":"string"}]}'

Produce non-Avro data to a topic called mytopic2 on a development Kafka cluster on localhost:

confluent local produce mytopic2