Testing Kafka Setup
We will create a topic called “topic1” to test that everything is functioning properly, after starting both ZooKeeper and Kafka
You can see that Kafka has successfully created the topic “topic1“.
There is one more command to check if the zookeeper and Kafka are started successfully. Make sure that the zookeeper is running on port 2181.
How to install Kafka with Zookeeper on Ubuntu?
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used to handle real-time data feeds. It is designed to handle a high volume, high throughput, and low latency data streams, and can be used to process, store, and analyze data in real-time. Kafka can be used to build real-time streaming data pipelines and applications and is often used in combination with Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark.