Have you started Zookeeper and the Kafka Cluster? Start the Zookeeper Server by the command zookeeper-server-start.sh $KAFKA_HOME/config/zookeeper.properties Start the Kafka cluster by the command kafka-server-start.sh $KAFKA_HOME/config/server.properties
Regards, Sivakumaran S > On 09-Aug-2016, at 3:22 PM, Pankaj Agrawal <pankaj....@gmail.com> wrote: > > bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor > 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
