Magnus Edenhill

You should be able to build a exe with Visual Studio using the solution in win32. We will provide an installer some time in the distant future. Den 7 aug...

You could try this exe file: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/edenhill/kafkacat/builds/23675338/artifacts

I'd very much appreciate a contribution that adds Windows builds.

There is currently no way to express per-message headers, the specified headers are used for all messages. With the future json-based producer we'll allow headers per message.

Yes! And the Kafka core team is working on adding such support to the protocol so as soon as that is ready I will implement it in librdkafka/kafkacat aswell. More...

Underlying KIP-4 support in librdkafka is scheduled for Q1, kafkacat integration will follow shortly after.

CLI ideas: Natural language syntax: ``` $ kafkacat -b mybroker -A where is an expressive command tree, like: CREATE TOPIC ( [WITH] PARTITIONS AND] [ REPLICATION FACTOR | REPLICA ASSIGNMENT...

Could it be that some messages fail deserialization? Try running without your grep and see what happens.

Avro messages are emitted as JSON without a delimiter, each message being its own json document. From the stdout IO streams perspective that might mean the output will be buffered...

Do all messages have the same avro schema?