How to list all available Kafka brokers in a cluster?

Question

I am writing a shell script to monitor kafka brokers.

I have gone through some links and found that if ZooKeeper contains a list of brokers, and if, in this list, th

Answer 1

Using Confluent's REST Proxy API v3:

curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/vnd.api+json" localhost:8082/v3/clusters

where localhost:8082 is Kafka Proxy address.

Answer 2

This command will give you the list of the active brokers between brackets:

./bin/zookeeper-shell.sh localhost:2181 ls /brokers/ids

Answer 3

To use zookeeper commands with shell script try

zookeeper/bin/zkCli.sh -server localhost:2181 <<< "ls /brokers/ids" | tail -n 1. The last line usually has the response details