I’m not aware of any automatism, but using this simple two step approach, it should work.
Note that in my case it was a partitioned topic, you can leave the params for it out in case you have a unpartitioned one:
1) Get max offset for your topic (+ their partitions):
bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic mytopic
mytopic:2:11
mytopic:1:7
mytopic:0:15
mytopic:3:8
2) Choose a topic (+ partition) and provide the offset – n as parameter:
bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic mytopic --offset 10 --partition 0
The last n messages of the topic will be printed to the console.
In my example, it will show 5 messages (= 15-10).