How to view kafka message

Question

Is there any way I can view the message content sent to kafka for a given topic? Say some thing like view last 5 messages for this topic, if that it possible.

Answer 1

On server where your admin run kafka find kafka-console-consumer.sh by command find . -name kafka-console-consumer.sh then go to that directory and run for read message from your topic

./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning --max-messages 10

note that in topic may be many messages in that case I use --max-messages key