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

Excerpts from Kafka docs

Deprecations in 0.9.0.0

The kafka-consumer-offset-checker.sh (kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker) has been deprecated. Going forward, please use kafka-consumer-groups.sh (kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand) for this functionality.

I am running Kafka broker with SSL enabled for both server and client. Below command I use

kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server Broker_IP:Port --list --command-config /tmp/ssl_config kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server Broker_IP:Port --command-config /tmp/ssl_config --describe --group group_name_x

where /tmp/ssl_config is as below

security.protocol=SSL
ssl.truststore.location=truststore_file_path.jks
ssl.truststore.password=truststore_password
ssl.keystore.location=keystore_file_path.jks
ssl.keystore.password=keystore_password
ssl.key.password=key_password