This consumer is a low-level tool which allows you to consume messages from specific partitions, offsets and replicas.
Useful parameters:
parition: the specific partition to consume from (default to all)offset: the beginning offset. Use -2 to consume messages from the beginning, -1 to consume from the end.max-messages: number of messages to printreplica: the replica, default to the broker-leader (-1)Exemple:
kafka-simple-consumer-shell \
--broker-list localhost:9092 \
--partition 1 \
--offset 4 \
--max-messages 3 \
--topic test-topic
displays 3 messages from partition 1 beginning at offset 4 from topic test-topic.