Kafka Topics CLI

kafka-topic

List all topics
>kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --list
my-topic


Create new topic
>kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --create --topic my-topic --replication-factor 3 --partitions 3
Created topic my-topic


Describe topic
>kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic my-topic --describe
`Topic: my-topic	PartitionCount: 3	ReplicationFactor: 1	Configs: segment.bytes=1073741824
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 0	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 1	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 2	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0`


Delete topic
>kafka-topic.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic my-topic --delete


Alter topic partitions
>kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --alter --topic my-topic --partitions 6
>kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic my-topic --describe
`Topic: my-topic	PartitionCount: 6	ReplicationFactor: 1	Configs: segment.bytes=1073741824
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 0	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 1	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 2	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 3	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 4	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0
	Topic: my-topic	Partition: 5	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0	Isr: 0`