kcat

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "![logo by @dtrapezoid](./resources/kcat_small.png)\n\n# kcat\n\n**kcat is the project formerly known as as kafkacat**\n\nkcat and kafkacat are Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Magnus Edenhill\n\n[https://github.com/edenhill/kcat](https://github.com/edenhill/kcat)\n\n*kcat logo by [@dtrapezoid](https://twitter.com/dtrapezoid)*\n\n\n## What is kcat\n\n**kcat** is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka \u003e=0.8,\nthink of it as a netcat for Kafka.\n\nIn **producer** mode kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a\nconfigurable delimiter (-D, defaults to newline), and produces them to the\nprovided Kafka cluster (-b), topic (-t) and partition (-p).\n\nIn **consumer** mode kcat reads messages from a topic and partition and\nprints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.\n\nThere\u0027s also support for the Kafka \u003e=0.9 high-level balanced consumer, use\nthe `-G \u003cgroup\u003e` switch and provide a list of topics to join the group.\n\nkcat also features a Metadata list (-L) mode to display the current\nstate of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.\n\nSupports Avro message deserialization using the Confluent Schema-Registry,\nand generic primitive deserializers (see examples below).\n\nkcat is fast and lightweight; statically linked it is no more than 150Kb.\n\n## What happened to kafkacat?\n\n**kcat is kafkacat**. The kafkacat project was renamed to kcat in August 2021\nto adhere to the Apache Software Foundation\u0027s (ASF) trademark policies.\nApart from the name, nothing else was changed.\n\n\n## Try it out with docker\n\n```bash\n# List brokers and topics in cluster\n$ docker run -it --network=host edenhill/kcat:1.7.1 -b YOUR_BROKER -L\n```\n\nSee [Examples](#examples) for usage options, and [Running in Docker](#running-in-docker) for more information on how to properly run docker-based clients with Kafka.\n\n\n## Install\n\n### On recent enough Debian systems:\n\n````\napt-get install kafkacat\n````\n\nOn recent openSUSE systems:\n\n```\nzypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:utili",
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