https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132420#M95090 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/8919/rajkumarsingh.html" nodeid="8919">@Rajkumar Singh</A> - Thank you! It works.</P> Fri, 06 May 2016 13:00:42 GMT KuldeepK 2016-05-06T13:00:42Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132417#M95087 <P>If I use below command to get data from my_file.txt, it captures all the data and I can get it at consumer console. If my_file.txt is continuosly updating then how can I keep my producer running and keep producing latest data?</P><PRE><CODE>kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic my_topic &lt; my_file.txt </CODE></PRE> Thu, 05 May 2016 14:07:25 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132417#M95087 KuldeepK 2016-05-05T14:07:25Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132418#M95088 <P>did you try tail -f file | kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092--topic my_topic </P> Thu, 05 May 2016 14:07:26 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132418#M95088 rajkumar_singh 2016-05-05T14:07:26Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132419#M95089 <P>I would also use NiFi's TailFile processor and PutKafka to achieve what you're doing.</P> Thu, 05 May 2016 14:31:07 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132419#M95089 aervits 2016-05-05T14:31:07Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132420#M95090 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/8919/rajkumarsingh.html" nodeid="8919">@Rajkumar Singh</A> - Thank you! It works.</P> Fri, 06 May 2016 13:00:42 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132420#M95090 KuldeepK 2016-05-06T13:00:42Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132421#M95091 <P>Thank you <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/393/aervits.html" nodeid="393">@Artem Ervits</A></P> Fri, 06 May 2016 13:01:29 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-keep-kafka-producer-running-continuously/m-p/132421#M95091 KuldeepK 2016-05-06T13:01:29Z