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# Kafka Validation

This section describes ways you can use Kafka tools for data capture for analysis.

```
kafka-topics --create --zookeeper datacouch.training.io:2181/kafka --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
```

Let's create a topic named "test" with a single partition and only one replica:

```
kafka-topics --list --zookeeper datacouch.training.io:2181/kafka
```

### kafka-console-producer

Read data from standard output and write it to a Kafka topic. For example:

```
kafka-console-producer --broker-list datacouch.training.io:9092 --topic test
```

### kafka-console-consumer

Kafka also has a command line consumer that will dump out messages to standard output.

```
kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server datacouch.training.io:9092 --topic test --from-beginning
```