I am following https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart and few weeks earlier everything was working well, but when I started it over again today is not working, I am using kafka_2.11-1.1.0. I created the new topic 'rahul' with the following command : bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic rahul Created topic "rahul" I also re-checked the topics with bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181 `__consumer_offsets rahhy rahul` started the producer: bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic rahul hey >hi >hello But when the time comes to consumer to show the messages: there is nothing although the command seems to be executed, but no messages. bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic rahul --from-beginning I even tried consuming both ways as zookeeper and bootstrap server, but none of them are giving messages published. ... View more