Kafkactl

kafkactl Plugin

A command-line interface for Apache Kafka. Manage Kafka clusters, topics, consumers, and messages from the command line.

Commands

Topic Management

• kafkactl topic list — List Kafka topics
• kafkactl topic describe — Describe Kafka topic

Consumer Management

• kafkactl consumer list — List consumer groups

Utility

• kafkactl _ _ — Passthrough to kafkactl CLI

Usage Examples

• "List Kafka topics"
• "Describe Kafka topic"
• "List consumer groups"
• "Manage Kafka from CLI"

Installation

brew install kafkactl

Or via Go:

go install github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl/cmd/kafkactl@latest

Examples

# List topics
kafkactl get topics

# Describe topic
kafkactl describe topic my-topic

# List consumer groups
kafkactl get consumer-groups

# Produce message
kafkactl produce my-topic --value "hello"

# Consume messages
kafkactl consume my-topic

# Any kafkactl command with passthrough
kafkactl _ _ get topics
kafkactl _ _ describe topic test
kafkactl _ _ get consumer-groups

Key Features

• Topics - Topic management
• Consumers - Consumer groups
• Produce - Message production
• Consume - Message consumption
• Clusters - Cluster management
• Kafka - Apache Kafka
• CLI - Command line native
• Config - Configuration support
• Avro - Avro support
• DevOps - DevOps workflows

Notes

• Requires Kafka cluster
• Supports multiple clusters
• Great for Kafka operations
• Supports Avro schemas