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

Old version includes kafka-simple-consumer-shell.sh (https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#1.1.1) which is convenient since we do not need cltr+c to exit.

For example

kafka-simple-consumer-shell.sh --broker-list $BROKERIP:$BROKERPORT --topic $TOPIC1 --property print.key=true --property key.separator=":"  --no-wait-at-logend