Consume messages from a Kafka topic.

Truncated message headers will be printed if they exist.

Usage:
  confluent kafka topic consume <topic> [flags]

Examples:
Consume items from topic "my-topic" and press "Ctrl-C" to exit.

  $ confluent kafka topic consume my-topic --from-beginning

Flags:
      --group string                        Consumer group ID. (default "confluent_cli_consumer_<randomly-generated-id>")
  -b, --from-beginning                      Consume from beginning of the topic.
      --offset int                          The offset from the beginning to consume from.
      --partition int32                     The partition to consume from. (default -1)
      --key-format string                   Format of message key as "string", "avro", "integer", "jsonschema", or "protobuf". Note that schema references are not supported for Avro. (default "string")
      --value-format string                 Format message value as "string", "avro", "integer", "jsonschema", or "protobuf". Note that schema references are not supported for Avro. (default "string")
      --print-key                           Print key of the message.
      --full-header                         Print complete content of message headers.
      --delimiter string                    The delimiter separating each key and value. (default "\t")
      --timestamp                           Print message timestamp in milliseconds.
      --config strings                      A comma-separated list of configuration overrides ("key=value") for the consumer client.
      --config-file string                  The path to the configuration file for the consumer client, in JSON or Avro format.
      --schema-registry-context string      The Schema Registry context under which to look up schema ID.
      --schema-registry-endpoint string     Endpoint for Schema Registry cluster.
      --schema-registry-api-key string      Schema registry API key.
      --schema-registry-api-secret string   Schema registry API secret.
      --api-key string                      API key.
      --api-secret string                   API secret.
      --cluster string                      Kafka cluster ID.
      --context string                      CLI context name.
      --environment string                  Environment ID.

Global Flags:
  -h, --help            Show help for this command.
      --unsafe-trace    Equivalent to -vvvv, but also log HTTP requests and responses which might contain plaintext secrets.
  -v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).
