# Need help for local Elastic node to read a kafka message (from Zookeeper)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789 "2016-06-23T14:54:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![naren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@naren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naren)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/1 "2016-06-23T14:54:21Z")

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Hi- from local elastic node ,need help to read a kafka message from Zookeeper.

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/2 "2016-06-23T15:03:08Z")

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Can you give some more context on what you are trying to do? Please provide as many details as you can including what you have tried already as your current description is not very clear.

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**Author:** ![naren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@naren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naren)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/3 "2016-06-23T15:12:52Z")

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Sure. There is a real-time message streaming into a Kafka topic. Kafka is using Zookeeper for message coordination.  
I am trying to read the message(Json ready) from my local elasticsearch node and visualize in kibana.

pls let me know if this makes sense (since am new to the whole thing!)

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**Author:** ![naren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@naren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naren)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/4 "2016-06-23T15:14:41Z")

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What I have tried is -  
after starting elasitic and kibana nodes on my local machine- I am a bit stuck on the steps/commands to read the mesg from the Zookeeper url.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/5 "2016-06-24T04:37:44Z")

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I'd suggest you use Logstash - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-kafka.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-kafka.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-for-local-elastic-node-to-read-a-kafka-message-from-zookeeper/53789/6 "2017-07-05T22:40:52Z")

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