I wanted to get some quick input on an idea of mine.
I use the kafka-console tools (like kafka-console-consumer.sh etc. ) on a daily basis and find them to be lacking some features and Quality-of-Life stuff.
Therefore i have some questions for a pet project of mine:
1) What features are the official kafka cli tools missing for your use cases? Example: I want an estimate on the number of messages in a topic
2) Are there Quality-of-Life improvements you crave? Example: I would like to stop reading at the high watermark.
Another thing: output to an sqlite file, to do some ad hoc querying on the data.
And: default value for broker-list/bootstrap-server/zookeeper by script to enable something like "use context aware the kafka nodes in my kubernetes cluster" or "just use this, it is always the same"
Great idea