poojary_sudth: Thank you, but that is +- the same set of tasks I did before.   I found how to make consumer work, it was necessary to add  parameter  --partition 0: KAFKA_OPTS="-Djava.security.auth.login.config=/root/jaas.conf" kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server ourHost:9092 --topic test --consumer.config /root/client.properties --partition 0  I cannot see all the messages comming into the topic, but at least some of them which fall into specified partition are printed. Which is enought for me to confirm that Kafka broker works.  I found this hint here:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34844209/consumer-not-receiving-messages-kafka-console-new-consumer-api-kafka-0-9 ... View more