Where Are the Kafka Logs

The Kafka log files are created at the /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs/ directory. The main Kafka log file is created at /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs/server.

What are kafka logs?

Apache Kafka logs are a collection of various data segments present on your disk, having a name as that of a form-topic partition or any specific topic-partition. Each Kafka log provides a logical representation of a unique topic-based partitioning.

How do I get kafka logs?

If you open script kafka-server-start or /usr/bin/zookeeper-server-start , you will see at the bottom that it calls kafka-run-class script. And you will see there that it uses LOG_DIR as the folder for the logs of the service (not to be confused with kafka topics data).