ERROR Error when sending message to topic

Question

While producing message in kafka, i am getting the following error :

$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic nil_PF1_P1
hi
hello         


        

Answer 1

If you are running hortonworks cluster, check the listening port in ambari.

In my case 9092 was not my port. I went to ambari and found the listening port was set to 6667 it worked for me. :)