How to create a Kafka producer

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created a Kafka topic. I want to start a producer to check if the Kafka cluster is working fine or not. How can I create a Kafka producer?

Answer 1

Hi@MD,

Generally, Kafka producer comes from an API. But for checking, you can create a producer from your command line, as shown below.

$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic topic-edu
>hello