# Unable to post a message to Kafka **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [August 20, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-post-a-message-to-kafka/97684 "2017-08-20T12:19:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arieltk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@arieltk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arieltk)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-post-a-message-to-kafka/97684/1 "2017-08-20T12:19:03Z")
Hi all, I am unable to post a message to Kafka from filebeat if the topic do not already exists in Kafka. The error I see is "WARN kafka message: client/metadata found some partitions to be leaderless". I am not able to define upfront the topic, and I want to create them with the first message sent. Any way to enable that? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-post-a-message-to-kafka/97684/2 "2017-08-20T17:07:24Z")
This is a setting in the kafka server configuration file. By default dynamic topic creation might actually be enabled. ---
**Author:** ![arieltk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@arieltk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arieltk)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-post-a-message-to-kafka/97684/3 "2017-08-21T12:08:22Z")
Tx. Will check ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-post-a-message-to-kafka/97684/4 "2017-09-10T12:19:10Z")
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