How to find the kafka version in linux? whether there is a way to find the installed kafka version other than mentioning the version while downloading it?
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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
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
1If 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) * Apache Kafka comes with a variety of console tools in the ./bin sub-directory of your Kafka download; e.g. ~/kafka/bin/
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 You can use for Debian/Ubuntu:
dpkg -l|grep kafka Expected result should to be like:
ii confluent-kafka-2.11 0.11.0.1-1 all publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log ii confluent-kafka-connect-elasticsearch 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect connector for copying data between Kafka and Elasticsearch ii confluent-kafka-connect-hdfs 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect connector for copying data between Kafka and Hadoop HDFS ii confluent-kafka-connect-jdbc 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases ii confluent-kafka-connect-replicator 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect connector for replicating topics between Kafka clusters ii confluent-kafka-connect-s3 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect S3 connector for copying data between Kafka and ii confluent-kafka-connect-storage-common 3.3.1-1 all Kafka Connect Storage Common contains packages used by storage ii confluent-kafka-rest 3.3.1-1 all A REST proxy for Kafka go to kafka/libs folder we can see multiple jars search for something similar kafka_2.11-0.10.1.1.jar.asc in this case the kafka version is 0.10.1.1
I found an easy way to do this without searching directories or log files:
kafka-dump-log --version Output looks like this:
15.3.0-ccs (Commit:6481debc2be778ee)
When you install Kafka in Centos7 with confluent :
yum install confluent-platform-oss-2.11 You can see the version of Kafka with :
yum deplist confluent-platform-oss-2.11 You can read : confluent-kafka-2.11 >= 0.10.2.1
To find the Kafka Version, We can use the jps command which show all the java processes running on the machine.
Step 1: Let's say, you are running Kafka as the root user, so login to your machine with root and use jps -m. It will show the result like
4979 Jps -m 9434 Kafka config/server.properties Step 2: From the above result, you can take the PID for Kafka application and use pwdx 9434 which reports the current directory of the process. the result will be like
9434: /apps/kafka_2.12-2.4.0 here you can see the Kafka version which is 2.12-2.4.0
cd kafka
./bin/kafka-topics.sh --version
You can also type
cat /build.info This will give you an output like this
BUILD_BRANCH=master BUILD_COMMIT=434160726dacc4a1a592fe6036891d6e646a3a4a BUILD_TIME=2017-05-12T16:02:04Z DOCKER_REPO= KAFKA_VERSION=0.10.2.1 CP_VERSION=3.2.1 To check kafka version :
cd /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/libs ls kafka_*.jar 
