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

Run the following (assuming kafka-console-consumer.sh is on the path):

kafka-console-consumer.sh  --from-beginning \
--bootstrap-server yourbroker:9092 --property print.key=true  \
--property print.value=false --property print.partition \
--topic yourtopic --timeout-ms 5000 | tail -n 10|grep "Processed a total of"