title: Jmeter 5.2.1 and Kafka
body: <p>everyone, I'm testing Jmeter (5.2.1) versus a Kafka server, eventually, I will be hitting Heroku but for now, I'm testing locally. </p>
  
  <p>I followed the steps from this youtube video but is not working and I cannot see why. </p>
  
  <p>I installed and ran Kafka using the steps from the link below on the sources and it works fine testing from the terminal but JMETER just shows some logs but nothing else... Can anyone share some light?... Thanks!!</p>
  
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  <p>I'm supposed to see the messages produced by JMeter on the consumer terminal but nothing :(</p>
  
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  <li><p>Install Kafka Locally:
  [<a href="https://medium.com/@Ankitthakur/apache-kafka-installation-on-mac-using-homebrew-a367cdefd273]" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://medium.com/@Ankitthakur/apache-kafka-installation-on-mac-using-homebrew-a367cdefd273]</a>.</p></li>
  <li><p>Video Tutorial on Windows: [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6288UEUmgWA]" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6288UEUmgWA]</a>.</p></li>
  <li><p>Test Plan (JMX) and JSON files: [<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_qG4890t_Qsqx9_X04PrScu573jzUNfI?usp=sharing]" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_qG4890t_Qsqx9_X04PrScu573jzUNfI?usp=sharing]</a>.</p></li>
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