A guide to quickly profiling data in Apache Kafka topics using the kafkacat and visidata command-line tools for data exploration.
Using bash shell tools like kafkacat, jq, sort, and uniq to perform a GROUP BY-style analysis on data from a Kafka topic.
A technical guide on using Unix pipelines with curl, xq, and kafkacat to ingest and transform XML data into JSON for Kafka.
A technical guide on setting Kafka message keys when piping JSON data from jq to kafkacat, using a separator character.
Explores methods to count messages in a Kafka topic, comparing kafkacat commands with wc to ksqlDB for more detailed, grouped aggregations.
A technical guide on manually installing and building the Kafka debugging tool kafkacat (now kcat) on a Fedora system.
How to manually skip bad records when using the Kafka Connect JDBC sink connector to prevent pipeline halts.
A tutorial on using kafkacat to copy data between Kafka clusters via Unix pipelines for quick, simple data replication.
A guide to resetting offsets for Kafka Connect source connectors by modifying data in the Kafka offset topic, using tools like kafkacat.
Explains how to delete a Kafka Connect connector by directly modifying its configuration topic when the REST API is unavailable.
A technical guide on using kafkacat to send multiline messages to Apache Kafka topics with custom delimiters.
A tutorial on using Mockaroo and kafkacat to generate and load realistic test data into Apache Kafka topics for development and testing.
