Kcli is a kafka read only command line browser.
Binaries are provided here (windows is not tested). If you have go installed you can do:
$ go get -u github.com/cswank/kcli
$ kcli --help
usage: kcli [<flags>]
Flags:
--help Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
-a, --addresses=localhost:9092 ...
comma seperated list of kafka addresses
-l, --logs=LOGS for debugging, set the log output to a file
Once you start kcli type 'h' to see the help menu:
If you don't like the colors you can set KCLI_COLOR[1,2,3] to one of:
- black
- red
- green
- yellow
- blue
- magenta
- cyan
- white
For example:
$ KCLI_COLOR1=red KCLI_COLOR2=yellow kcli
See it in action at asciinema
