Learn about Apache Kafka and its ecosystem in 20 minutes.

What is Apache Kafka?

Learn how Kafka works, get a strong understanding of the different components

Kafka Fundamentals

Understanding Kafka

Starting Kafka

Learn how to use Kafka Command Line Interface (CLI)

Kafka CLI Tutorials

How to interact with Kafka programmatically?

Kafka Programming Tutorials

Practice using Kafka

Kafka Advanced Concepts

Series of advanced tutorials on important Kafka administration subjects

Kafka Administration

Next Level Kafka

Kafka Consumer screenshot of advanced options available in Conduktor

Kafka Consumer Advanced Options in Conduktor

Kafka Consumers in Conduktor

Kafka Consumer Details Conduktor Screenshot 

Kafka Consumer Details in Conduktor

Conduktor & Kafka Consumers

CLI Extensions

Important recommendation: do NOT use the `--zookeeper` option

kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic first_topic

kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic first_topic --from-beginning

Hello World
My name is Conduktor
I love Kafka
^CProcessed a total of 3 messages  (<-- when doing a Ctrl+C to exit)

Important note on message ordering

kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic first_topic --formatter kafka.tools.DefaultMessageFormatter --property print.timestamp=true --property print.key=true --property print.value=true --from-beginning

CreateTime:1641810588071	null	hello
CreateTime:1641823304170	name	Stephane
CreateTime:1641823301294	example key	example value

Kafka Consumer CLI Tutorial

Kafka CLI Tutorial showing how to use the command line interface to consume messages from Apache Kafka with Kafka console consumer examples

Apache Kafka Consumer CLI tutorial showing how to use the command line interface to consumer messages from Kafka with Kafka console consumer examples.