Magnus Edenhill

Follow the instructions here: https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat#quick-build

if bootstrap.sh succeeds you should have a kafkacat binary in the current directory, try: `./kafkacat -V`

Then there must have been a previous error as well. Please scan the output of bootstrap.sh for errors and paste them here. What version of ubuntu are you using?

`./configure: 41: ./configure: cmake: not found` You need to install `cmake` (`sudo apt install cmake`). Please follow the instructions previously given.

Seems like it is not able to connect to the broker in due time (5s). Can you connect to the broker with `telnet kafka-1 9092` ?

``` Trying 192.168.1.231... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out ``` So that's your problem, your broker can't be reached, for whatever reason: no route to broker,...

I'm sorry but it is impossible for me to troubleshoot your networking / cluster / infra problems. Please reach out to your operations team.

That's not currently possible. We'll look into adding dynamic topic support when adding produce-by-JSON-envelope support.

This will be possible when we implement the rich/json input format, but that's some way out. In the meantime use multiple kcat instances, or use a proper language client such...

What version of kafkacat?