How to find the kafka version in linux

Not sure if there's a convenient way, but you can just inspect your kafka/libs folder. You should see files like kafka_2.10-0.8.2-beta.jar, where 2.10 is Scala version and 0.8.2-beta is Kafka version.

Kafka 2.0 have the fix(KIP-278) for it:

kafka-topics.sh --version 

Or

kafka-topics --version

Using confluent utility:

Kafka version check can be done with confluent utility which comes by default with Confluent platform(confluent utility can be added to cluster separately as well - credits cricket_007).

${confluent.home}/bin/confluent version kafka

Checking the version of other Confluent platform components like ksql schema-registry and connect

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version kafka
1.1.0-cp1

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version connect
4.1.0

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version schema-registry
4.1.0

[confluent-4.1.0]$ ./bin/confluent version ksql-server
4.1.0

There is nothing like kafka --version at this point. So you should either check the version from your kafka/libs/ folder or you can run

find ./libs/ -name \*kafka_\* | head -1 | grep -o '\kafka[^\n]*'

from your kafka folder (and it will do the same for you). It will return you something like kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1.jar.asc where 0.8.1.1 is your kafka version.

There are several methods to find kafka version

Method 1 simple:-

ps -ef|grep kafka

it will displays all running kafka clients in the console... Ex:- /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/../libs/kafka-clients-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar we are using 0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37 version of kafka

Method 2:- go to

cd /usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/libs
ll |grep kafka

Ex:- kafka_2.10-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar kafka-clients-0.10.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar

same result as method 1 we can find the version of kafka using in kafka libs.