Henry, I used the ConsoleConsumer to read the __offset__ topic directly to get its content during my tests. Reminder you need to set the deserializer correctly and print both key and value.
Guozhang On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Dustin Cote <dus...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi Henry, > > You can also use any other consumer basically to read from the internal > topics. The kafka-console-consumer would work for this purpose. If you're > just looking to view the offsets for a consumer group though, might I > suggest going with the built-in ConsumerGroupCommand? It has the > capability to describe any consumer group, list all consumer groups, or > remove any you don't want: > kafka-run-class kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand > > That command will show you the options for running the > ConsumerGroupCommand. > > Cheers, > > Dustin > > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Spico Florin <spicoflo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi! > > If you produce your messages with key type (optional) and value type of > > String then you can you Kafka tool: http://www.kafkatool.com/ > > > > I hope that it helps. > > Regards, > > Florin > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Henry Cai <h...@pinterest.com.invalid> > > wrote: > > > > > When we are on kafka 0.8, all the consumer offsets are stored in ZK and > > we > > > can use some ZK browser to see the contents in different ZK paths. > > > > > > On kafka 0.9, when everything moved to internal kafka topics, do we > have > > a > > > tool to browse through the contents in those topics? > > > > > > > > > -- > Dustin Cote > confluent.io > -- -- Guozhang
