Exception running kafka-console-producer.sh (0.8.1.1)

Question

I am trying out the kafka-console-producer.sh. I type something to the console and hit enter and I get tons of stack traces to the console like this. Appreciate any pointers.

Answer 1

Your broker-list argument is pointing to Zookeeper instead of the actual broker. The proper usage would be:

./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test

assuming your broker runs on port 9092 (default).

You can refer here for more information (your issue is described in Step 4: Send some messages)