https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kafka-console-consumer-nor-reading-messages-when-used-with/m-p/203108#M165111 <P>I am using kafka console consumer script to read messages from a kafka topic. but it is showing the following behavior.</P><P>If i use the zookeeper option, the consumer reads messages, whereas if i use bootstrap-server option i am not able to read messages. any thoughts.</P><P>using HDP 2.6 </P><PRE> bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server 172.16.3.196:6667 --topic test1 --from-beginning bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper 172.16.3.196:2181 --topic test1 --from-beginning Using the ConsoleConsumer with old consumer is deprecated and will be removed in a future major release. Consider using the new consumer by passing [bootstrap-server] instead of [zookeeper]. Hello How are you this is a test message Hope this helps</PRE> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:12:55 GMT arunpoy 2017-08-01T13:12:55Z