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

You can probably try the kafkacat utility as well. The readme on Github provides examples

It would be great if you could share which tool worked the best for you :)

Details from KafkaCat Readme:

Read messages from stdin, produce to 'syslog' topic with snappy compression

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog | kafkacat -b mybroker -t syslog -z snappy