kafka-console-consumer-help

kafka-console-consumer-help

$ kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh 

Option                                   Description                            
------                                   -----------                            
--blacklist <String: blacklist>          Blacklist of topics to exclude from    
                                           consumption.                         
--bootstrap-server <String: server to    REQUIRED (unless old consumer is       
  connect to>                              used): The server to connect to.     
--consumer-property <String:             A mechanism to pass user-defined       
  consumer_prop>                           properties in the form key=value to  
                                           the consumer.                        
--consumer.config <String: config file>  Consumer config properties file. Note  
                                           that [consumer-property] takes       
                                           precedence over this config.         
--csv-reporter-enabled                   If set, the CSV metrics reporter will  
                                           be enabled                           
--delete-consumer-offsets                If specified, the consumer path in     
                                           zookeeper is deleted when starting up
--enable-systest-events                  Log lifecycle events of the consumer   
                                           in addition to logging consumed      
                                           messages. (This is specific for      
                                           system tests.)                       
--formatter <String: class>              The name of a class to use for         
                                           formatting kafka messages for        
                                           display. (default: kafka.tools.      
                                           DefaultMessageFormatter)             
--from-beginning                         If the consumer does not already have  
                                           an established offset to consume     
                                           from, start with the earliest        
                                           message present in the log rather    
                                           than the latest message.             
--group <String: consumer group id>      The consumer group id of the consumer. 
--isolation-level <String>               Set to read_committed in order to      
                                           filter out transactional messages    
                                           which are not committed. Set to      
                                           read_uncommittedto read all          
                                           messages. (default: read_uncommitted)
--key-deserializer <String:                                                     
  deserializer for key>                                                         
--max-messages <Integer: num_messages>   The maximum number of messages to      
                                           consume before exiting. If not set,  
                                           consumption is continual.            
--metrics-dir <String: metrics           If csv-reporter-enable is set, and     
  directory>                               this parameter isset, the csv        
                                           metrics will be output here          
--new-consumer                           Use the new consumer implementation.   
                                           This is the default, so this option  
                                           is deprecated and will be removed in 
                                           a future release.                    
--offset <String: consume offset>        The offset id to consume from (a non-  
                                           negative number), or 'earliest'      
                                           which means from beginning, or       
                                           'latest' which means from end        
                                           (default: latest)                    
--partition <Integer: partition>         The partition to consume from.         
                                           Consumption starts from the end of   
                                           the partition unless '--offset' is   
                                           specified.                           
--property <String: prop>                The properties to initialize the       
                                           message formatter.                   
--skip-message-on-error                  If there is an error when processing a 
                                           message, skip it instead of halt.    
--timeout-ms <Integer: timeout_ms>       If specified, exit if no message is    
                                           available for consumption for the    
                                           specified interval.                  
--topic <String: topic>                  The topic id to consume on.            
--value-deserializer <String:                                                   
  deserializer for values>                                                      
--whitelist <String: whitelist>          Whitelist of topics to include for