How to check whether Kafka Server is running?

Question

I want to ensure whether kafka server is running or not before starting production and consumption jobs. It is in windows environment and here\'s my kafka server\'s code in

Answer 1

You can install Kafkacat tool on your machine

For example on Ubuntu You can install it using

apt-get install kafkacat

once kafkacat is installed then you can use following command to connect it

kafkacat -b : -t test-topic

• Replace with your machine ip
• can be replaced by the port on which kafka is running. Normally it is 9092

once you run the above command and if kafkacat is able to make the connection then it means that kafka is up and running