telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/README.md

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# Kafka Consumer Input Plugin
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The [Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) consumer plugin polls a specified Kafka
topic and adds messages to InfluxDB. The plugin assumes messages follow the
line protocol. [Consumer Group](http://godoc.org/github.com/wvanbergen/kafka/consumergroup)
is used to talk to the Kafka cluster so multiple instances of telegraf can read
from the same topic in parallel.
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## Configuration
```toml
# Read metrics from Kafka topic(s)
[[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
## topic(s) to consume
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topics = ["telegraf"]
## an array of Zookeeper connection strings
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zookeeper_peers = ["localhost:2181"]
## the name of the consumer group
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consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"
## Maximum number of metrics to buffer between collection intervals
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metric_buffer = 100000
## Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
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offset = "oldest"
## Data format to consume.
## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
## more about them here:
## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
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data_format = "influx"
## Maximum length of a message to consume, in bytes (default 0/unlimited);
## larger messages are dropped
max_message_len = 65536
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```
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## Testing
Running integration tests requires running Zookeeper & Kafka. See Makefile
for kafka container command.