Show last three messages from a Kafka topic with kafkacat

kafkacat.adoc

kafkacat -b localhost:9092 \
         -t _kafka-connect-group-01-status \
         -C \
         -o-3 \
         -c3 \
         -f 'Topic %t / Partition %p / Offset: %o / Timestamp: %T\nHeaders: %h\nKey (%K bytes): %k\nPayload (%S bytes): %s\n--\n'

Where:

-b	Broker address
-t	Topic name
-C	Run as a consumer (-P for producer)
-o-3	From offset (-o) three from the end (-3).
-c3	Consume three messages and exit (omit this to continue displaying new messages)
-f	Optional format string to display rich information about the message and its metadata. Useful when starting to poke around topic structures :)