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Matthias J. Sax commented on KAFKA-6520: ---------------------------------------- [~harjitdotsingh] Not sure what you exactly mean... To write/read to/from Kafka, you can use command line tools `bin/kafka-console-producer` and `bin/kafka-console-consumer`. There is also a quickstart example application for Kafka Streams. I would recommend to walk through the Kafka quickstart that show cases all of them: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart > When a Kafka Stream can't communicate with the server, it's Status stays > RUNNING > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-6520 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6520 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: streams > Reporter: Michael Kohout > Assignee: Milind Jain > Priority: Major > Labels: newbie, user-experience > > When you execute the following scenario the application is always in RUNNING > state > > 1)start kafka > 2)start app, app connects to kafka and starts processing > 3)kill kafka(stop docker container) > 4)the application doesn't give any indication that it's no longer > connected(Stream State is still RUNNING, and the uncaught exception handler > isn't invoked) > > > It would be useful if the Stream State had a DISCONNECTED status. > > See > [this|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/confluent-platform/nQh2ohgdrIQ] > for a discussion from the google user forum. > [This|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4564] is a link to a > related issue. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)