title: Kafka consumer query
body: <p>To launch a Kafka consumer I have to run it with the following params.</p>
  
  <p><code>kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic MyTopic</code></p>
  
  <p>Was wondering why it needs to have a zookeeper as a param, if I use the broker param will it not work similar to how the producer is launched. Consumer needs to be aware of the broker/cluster and not the zookeeper location.</p>
  
  <p><code>.\kafka-console-producer.bat --broker --list localhost:9092 --topic MyTopic</code></p>
  
  <p>This is on windows, am not sure how its in Unix flavors.</p>
  
  <p>-Chandra</p>