---
title: "Run the CLI Kafka Tools"
slug: "run-the-cli-kafka-tools"
updated: 2024-03-19T11:25:29Z
published: 2024-03-19T11:25:29Z
canonical: "docs.mapp.com/run-the-cli-kafka-tools"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Run the CLI Kafka Tools

1. Use the CLI Kafka Tools included on your Kafka binary distribution to start the console consumer. This will print the data coming from the topic on your console. Start it using the following command:

```plaintext
bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server="host:port" --topic mytopic --group groupId --consumer-property security.protocol=SASL_SSL 
--consumer-property sasl.mechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256 --consumer-property auto.offset.reset=earliest #--consumer-property auto.offset.reset=latest
```
2. Before running the command, take the following settings:
  - Substitute <host:port>, <mytopic>, and <groupId>. Mapp provides you with the connection endpoint, topic name, consumer group, and credentials.
  - Specify the value for `auto.offset.reset` (see section [Configuration Properties for the Kafka Clients](/v1/docs/configuration-properties-for-the-kafka-clients)).
3. Alternatively, you can set the configuration properties in the "consumer.properties" file as follows:

```plaintext
#auto.offset.reset=earliest
#auto.offset.reset=latest
group.id=groupId
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
sasl.mechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256
```
4. Now use the `--consumer.config` parameter on the console consumer execution.

```plaintext
bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server="host:port" --topic mytopic --consumer.config consumer.properties
```
5. Before running the command, substitute <host:port> and <mytopic>*.*