After you create a topic, populate the topic with one or more events that you want to
stream.
A Kafka client communicates with the Kafka brokers via the network for writing or
reading events. Once received, the brokers will store the events in a durable and
fault-tolerant manner for as long as you need.
- You have created a Kafka topic.
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Run the console producer client to write a few events into your topic. By
default, each line you enter will result in a separate event being written to
the topic.
$ kafka-console-producer --topic quickstart-events --broker-list <hostname>:9092
This is my first event
This is my second event
You can stop the producer client with Ctrl-C at any
time.
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Optionally, write more messages to the topic.
For more Kafka command-line tools, see Kafka Command Line
Tools.
