telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/README.md

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# Kafka Consumer Input Plugin
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.
## Configuration
```toml
# Read metrics from Kafka topic(s)
[[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
## topic(s) to consume
topics = ["telegraf"]
## an array of Zookeeper connection strings
zookeeper_peers = ["localhost:2181"]
## the name of the consumer group
consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"
## Maximum number of metrics to buffer between collection intervals
metric_buffer = 100000
## Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
offset = "oldest"
## Data format to consume. This can be "json", "influx" or "graphite"
## 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
data_format = "influx"
```
## Testing
Running integration tests requires running Zookeeper & Kafka. The following
commands assume you're on OS X & using [boot2docker](http://boot2docker.io/) or docker-machine through [Docker Toolbox](https://www.docker.com/docker-toolbox).
To start Kafka & Zookeeper:
```
docker run -d -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 --env ADVERTISED_HOST=`boot2docker ip || docker-machine ip <your_machine_name>` --env ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 spotify/kafka
```