Consumer not receiving messages, kafka console, new consumer api, Kafka 0.9

Question

I am doing the Kafka Quickstart for Kafka 0.9.0.0.

I have zookeeper listening at localhost:2181 because I ran

bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh          


        

Answer 1

replication factor must be at least 3

./bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --from-beginning --topic test