Kcat (Kafkacat)

23 articles

2025

13 Mar 2025 Creating an HTTP Source connector on Confluent Cloud from the CLI
Confluent Cloud
13 Mar 2025 Why is kcat showing the wrong topics?
kcat (kafkacat)

2021

04 Mar 2021 Quick profiling of data in Apache Kafka using kafkacat and visidata
Data
26 Feb 2021 Loading delimited data into Kafka - quick & dirty (but effective)
kcat (kafkacat)
02 Feb 2021 Performing a GROUP BY on data in bash
Data Engineering

2020

01 Oct 2020 Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 1: The Dirty Hack
XML
30 Sep 2020 Setting key value when piping from jq to kafkacat
jq
08 Sep 2020 Counting the number of messages in a Kafka topic
kcat (kafkacat)
03 Jul 2020 Why JSON isn’t the same as JSON Schema in Kafka Connect converters and ksqlDB (Viewing Kafka messages bytes as hex)
kcat (kafkacat)
20 Apr 2020 How to install kafkacat on Fedora
kcat (kafkacat)
16 Apr 2020 A quick and dirty way to monitor data arriving on Kafka
Kafka
11 Mar 2020 Streaming Wi-Fi trace data from Raspberry Pi to Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud
Raspberry pi
07 Feb 2020 Primitive Keys in ksqlDB
ksqlDB
23 Jan 2020 Notes on getting data into InfluxDB from Kafka with Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
21 Jan 2020 Monitoring Sonos with ksqlDB, InfluxDB, and Grafana
ksqlDB

2019

16 Oct 2019 Using Kafka Connect and Debezium with Confluent Cloud
Kafka Connect
15 Oct 2019 Skipping bad records with the Kafka Connect JDBC sink connector
Kafka Connect
29 Sep 2019 Copying data between Kafka clusters with Kafkacat
kcat (kafkacat)
15 Aug 2019 Reset Kafka Connect Source Connector Offsets
Kafka Connect
23 Jun 2019 Manually delete a connector from Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
22 May 2019 Deleting a Connector in Kafka Connect without the REST API
Kafka Connect

2018

04 Sep 2018 Sending multiline messages to Kafka
kcat (kafkacat)
10 May 2018 Quick ’n Easy Population of Realistic Test Data into Kafka
Apache Kafka