Kafka Consumer: No entry found for connection

Question

I am trying to check the kafka consumer by consuming the data from a topic on a remote Kafka cluster. I am getting the following error when I use the kafka-console-consume

Answer 1

I had this problem (with consumers and producers) when running Kafka and Zookeeper as Docker containers.

The solution was to set advertised.listeners in the config/server.properties file of the Kafka brokers, so that it contains the IP address of the container, e.g.

advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://172.15.0.8:9092

See https://github.com/maxant/kafkaplayground/blob/master/start-kafka.sh for an example of a script used to start Kafka inside the container after setting up the properties file correctly.