How to find the kafka version in linux

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Not sure if there's a convenient way, but you can just inspect your kafka/libs folder. You should see files like kafka_2.10-0.8.2-beta.jar, where 2.10 is Scala version and 0.8.2-beta is Kafka version.

Kafka 2.0 have the fix(KIP-278) for it:

kafka-topics.sh --version 

Or

kafka-topics --version

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Using confluent utility:

Kafka version check can be done with confluent utility which comes by default with Confluent platform(confluent utility can be added to cluster separately as well - credits cricket_007).

${confluent.home}/bin/confluent version kafka

Checking the version of other Confluent platform components like ksql schema-registry and connect

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version kafka
1.1.0-cp1

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version connect
4.1.0

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version schema-registry
4.1.0

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version ksql-server
4.1.0

There is nothing like kafka --version at this point. So you should either check the version from your kafka/libs/ folder or you can run

find ./libs/ -name \*kafka_\* | head -1 | grep -o '\kafka[^\n]*'

from your kafka folder (and it will do the same for you). It will return you something like kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1.jar.asc where 0.8.1.1 is your kafka version.

There are several methods to find kafka version

Method 1 simple:-

ps -ef|grep kafka

it will displays all running kafka clients in the console... Ex:- /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/../libs/kafka-clients-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar we are using 0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37 version of kafka

Method 2:- go to

cd /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/libs
ll |grep kafka

Ex:- kafka_2.10-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar kafka-clients-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar

same result as method 1 we can find the version of kafka using in kafka libs.

You can grep the logs to see the version. Let's say kafka is installed under /usr/local/kafka, then:

$ grep "Kafka version" /usr/local/kafka/logs/*

/usr/local/kafka/logs/kafkaServer.out: INFO Kafka version : 0.9.0.1 (org.apache.kafka.common.utils.AppInfoParser)

will reveal the version

Simple way on macOS e.g. installed via homebrew

$ ls -l $(which kafka-topics)
/usr/local/bin/kafka-topics -> ../Cellar/kafka/0.11.0.1/bin/kafka-topics

If you want to check the version of a specific Kafka broker, run this CLI on the broker*

kafka-broker-api-versions.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --version

where localhost:9092 is the accessible <hostname|IP Address>:<port> this API will check (localhost can be used if it's the same host you're running this command on). Example of output:

2.4.0 (Commit:77a89fcf8d7fa018)

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* Apache Kafka comes with a variety of console tools in the ./bin sub-directory of your Kafka download; e.g. ~/kafka/bin/