How to view kafka message

On server where your admin run kafka find kafka-console-consumer.sh by command find . -name kafka-console-consumer.sh then go to that directory and run for read message from your topic

./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning --max-messages 10

note that in topic may be many messages in that case I use --max-messages key

I work for a company with hundreds of developers who obviously need to check Kafka messages on a regular basis. Employees come and go and therefore we want to avoid the setup (dedicated SASL credentials, certificates, ACLs, ...) for each new employee.

Our platform teams operate a deployment of Kowl (https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl) so that everyone can access it without going through the usual setup. We also use it when developing locally using a docker-compose file.

You can use console consumer to view messages produced on some topic:

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning

You can try Kafka Magic - it's free and you can write complex queries in JavaScript referencing message properties and metadata. Works with Avro serialization too