Hi, I wrote a java client to send data from file to kafka,(this code worked when ran in local) got following error
$ java -cp kafka-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar KafkaProducerFromFile [2016-05-04 03:39:24,996] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler:97) [2016-05-04 03:39:25,102] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler:97) [2016-05-04 03:39:25,209] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler:97) [2016-05-04 03:39:25,315] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler:97) [2016-05-04 03:39:25,419] ERROR Failed to send requests for topics test with correlation ids in [0,8] (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler:97) Exception in thread "main" kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after 3 tries. at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:91) at kafka.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:77) at kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:33) at .KafkaProducerFromFile.main(KafkaProducerFromFile.java:40) $ Then tried running console producer got $ ./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic test --broker-list localhost:6667 hello [2016-05-04 03:54:32,037] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 0 : {test=TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2016-05-04 03:54:32,133] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 1 : {test=TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2016-05-04 03:54:32,235] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2 : {test=TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2016-05-04 03:54:32,337] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 3 : {test=TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) .... Can someone help me with this Thanks.