Thanks Magnus! I will definitely check this out —Ian
On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se> wrote: > Hey Ian, > > this is where a tool like kafkacat comes in handy, it will use a random > partitioner by default (without the need for defining a key): > > tail -f /my/log | kafkacat -b mybroker -t mytopic > > See > https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat > > > > 2014-04-10 6:13 GMT+07:00 Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com>: > >> Hey guys. We recently migrated our production cluster from 0.7.2 to 0.8.1. >> One of the tools in the 0.7 distribution was something called Producer >> Shell, which we used in some cron jobs to do some manual addition of >> messages (for messages that got dropped for various reasons). So in 0.8 >> that is gone, and I have tried replacing it with the console Producer. It >> seems like the console producer only produces to a single partition whereas >> the producer shell used to randomly distribute the messages. Is this >> behavior configurable? AM I missing something obvious? >> >> Thanks in advance >> --Ian
