I am using kafka console consumer script to read messages from a kafka topic. but it is showing the following behavior. 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. using HDP 2.6 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 ... View more