Java, How to get number of messages in a topic in apache kafka

Question

I am using apache kafka for messaging. I have implemented the producer and consumer in Java. How can we get the number of messages in a topic?

Answer 1

I actually use this for benchmarking my POC. The item you want to use ConsumerOffsetChecker. You can run it using bash script like below.

bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker  --topic test --zookeeper localhost:2181 --group testgroup

And below is the result : As you can see on the red box, 999 is the number of message currently in the topic.

Update: ConsumerOffsetChecker is deprecated since 0.10.0, you may want to start using ConsumerGroupCommand.