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Jun 19, 2026 · Operations

Comprehensive Guide to Kafka Commands (2026 Edition)

This article provides a step‑by‑step reference for Kafka command‑line tools, covering version checks, topic creation, listing, describing, deletion, partition alteration, consumer‑group inspection, offset resets, producer/consumer testing, broker API version queries, cluster metadata, leader election, and log‑directory monitoring, with concrete examples and expected outputs.