Introduction

@cookiemonsterdev/kafka-cli is a command-line admin client for Apache Kafka, built on @cookiemonsterdev/kafka-core: kafka topic list, kafka group describe, kafka acl add, and the rest of the broker admin surface, runnable with npx/pnpm dlx or installed globally.

It covers admin operations only for the 1.x line — creating and inspecting topics, consumer groups, ACLs, configs, quotas, transactions, and cluster state. It does not produce or consume messages (kafka-console-producer.sh/kafka-console-consumer.sh have no equivalent here).

Every command that connects reads its brokers from an explicit --brokers flag, a kafka.config.* file, or a named profile — see Configuration. Output is human- readable by default, or one JSON document on stdout with --json — see Output and scripting with JSON.

This site documents the command surface. The package lives in packages/cli; this Astro site is packages/docs.

Next: Installation, Getting started, Command reference, Exit codes.

Coming from the shell scripts

Already know kafka-topics.sh, kafka-consumer-groups.sh, or the rest of the scripts shipped in an Apache Kafka distribution? See Migrating from the Kafka shell scripts for a flag-by-flag map to the equivalent kafka command.