diff --git a/docs/kafka/kcat-kafka/README.adoc b/docs/kafka/kcat-kafka/README.adoc index 68950cbcf..6cea4ef71 100644 --- a/docs/kafka/kcat-kafka/README.adoc +++ b/docs/kafka/kcat-kafka/README.adoc @@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ For more information about Kafkacat configuration options, see https://github.co NOTE: Kafkacat does not yet fully support SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication, so connecting to a Kafka instance requires only the bootstrap server and the service account credentials for SASL/PLAIN authentication. +NOTE: Kafkacat have been recently renamed to kcat. If you use latest version of kafkacat please replace all occurences referencing kafkacat binary to kcat + .Prerequisites ifndef::qs[] * You have the bootstrap server endpoint for your Kafka instance. To relocate the server endpoint, select your Kafka instance in the {product-kafka} web console, select the options menu (three vertical dots), and click *Connection*. @@ -164,6 +166,8 @@ $ kafkacat -t my-first-kafka-topic -b "$KAFKA_HOST" \ NOTE: {product-kafka} also supports the SASL/OAUTHBEARER mechanism for authentication, which is the recommended authentication mechanism to use. However, Kafkacat does not yet fully support OAUTHBEARER, so this example uses SASL/PLAIN. +NOTE: A Kafkacat producer might behave differently depending on the operating system. For example, on Mac operating systems, messages are sent by redirecting them to the Kafkacat binary in the format `echo "message" | kafkacat ...`. + -- . With Kafkacat running in producer mode, enter messages into Kafkacat that you want to produce to the Kafka topic. +