kafka get partition count for a topic

Question

How can I get number of partitions for any kafka topic from the code. I have researched many links but none seem to work.

Mentioning a few:

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Answer 1

Below shell cmd can print the number of partitions. You should be in kafka bin directory before executing the cmd:

sh kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic **TopicName** | awk '{print $2}' | uniq -c |awk 'NR==2{print "count of partitions=" $1}'

Note that you have to change the topic name according to your need. You can further validate this using if condition as well:

sh kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic **TopicName** | awk '{print $2}' | uniq -c |awk 'NR==2{if ($1=="16") print "valid partitions"}'

The above cmd command prints valid partitions if count is 16. You can change count depending on your requirement.