Hi all, I have a 3-node Kafka cluster. I'm running into the following error when I try to use the console producer to write to a topic that does *not* yet exist. I have ensured that "auto.create.topics.enable=true" in server.properties.
The error: ubuntu@ip-XX-X-XXX-XX:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic sampletopic --broker-list localhost:9082 [2015-11-03 12:00:01,011] WARN Property topic is not valid (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties) Hey [2015-11-03 12:00:04,304] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic sampletopic -> No partition metadata for topic sampletopic due to kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}] for topic [sampletopic]: class kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-11-03 12:00:04,312] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic sampletopic -> No partition metadata for topic sampletopic due to kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}] for topic [sampletopic]: class kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-11-03 12:00:04,313] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: sampletopic (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) ... Once I create the topic, I am able to write to it: ubuntu@ip-XX-X-XXX-XX:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 2 --partitions 2 --topic sampletopic Created topic "sampletopic". ubuntu@ip-10-1-100-75:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic sampletopic --broker-list localhost:9082 [2015-11-03 12:09:01,940] WARN Property topic is not valid (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties) Hey Hello ^Cubuntu@ip-10-1-100-75:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --from-beginning --topic sampletopic Hey Hello ^CConsumed 2 messages Any idea what I am doing wrong or how I should troubleshoot this issue? Regards, KN.