Kafka

Supported Types

Metrics	Logs	Traces
✓	✓	✓

Configuration Table

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
protocol_version	enum	"2.0.0"	The Kafka protocol version to use when communicating with brokers. Valid values are: "2.2.1", "2.2.0", "2.0.0", or "1.0.0".
brokers	strings	localhost:9092	A list of the brokers to connect to when sending metrics, traces, and logs.
timeout	int	5	Timeout (seconds) for every attempt to send data to the backend.
enable_metrics	bool	true
metric_topic	string	otlp_metrics	The name of the topic to export metrics to.
enable_logs	bool	true
log_topic	string	otlp_logs	The name of the topic to export logs to.
enable_traces	bool	true
trace_topic	string	otlp_spans	The name of the topic to export traces to.
enable_auth	bool	false
auth_type	enum	basic	basic, sasl, or kerberos
basic_username	string
basic_password	string
sasl_username	string
sasl_password	enum
sasl_mechanism	string	SCRAM-SHA-256	SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, or PLAIN
kerberos_service_name	string
kerberos_realm	string
kerberos_config_file	string	/etc/krb5.conf
kerberos_auth_type	enum	keytab	keytab or basic
kerberos_keytab_file	string	/etc/security/kafka.keytab
kerberos_username	string
kerberos_password	string

Supported Retry and Queuing Settings

This destination supports the following retry and queuing settings:

Sending Queue	Persistent Queue	Retry on Failure
✓	✓	✓