How to start a consumer in Kafka cluster

Question

Hi Team,

I have created a Kafka topic. I want to start a consumer on the topic. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

In Kafka, each topic is divided into a set of logs known as partitions. Producers write to the tail of these logs and consumers read the logs at their own pace. To create a Kafka consumer, you can run the below command.

$ bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic-edu