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+# All development of kgo-verifier has moved to https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
+
+This repository has been put in archive mode to retain history.
 
 # kgo-verifier & kgo-repeater
 
@@ -135,4 +138,4 @@ Keep rand_read_msgs at 1 to constrain memory usage.
 
     kgo-verifier --brokers $BROKERS --username $SASL_USER --password $SASL_PASSWORD --topic $TOPIC --msg_size 128000 --produce_msgs 0 --rand_read_msgs 1 --seq_read=0 --parallel 64
 
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+```