Kafka producer to read data files

Question

I am trying to load a data file in loop(to check stats) instead of standard input in Kafka. After downloading Kafka, I performed the following steps:

Started zookeeper:<

Answer 1

The easiest way if you are using Linux or Mac is:

kafka-console-producer --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test < messages.txt

Reference: https://github.com/Landoop/kafka-cheat-sheet