Deprecated in version 1.4. Please use Kafka Consumer input plugin
The Kafka consumer plugin polls a specified Kafka
topic and adds messages to InfluxDB. The plugin assumes messages follow the line
protocol. Consumer Group is used to talk to the Kafka cluster so multiple
instances of telegraf can read from the same topic in parallel.
Configuration
## DEPRECATED: The 'kafka_consumer_legacy' plugin is deprecated in version 1.4.0, use 'inputs.kafka_consumer' instead, NOTE: 'kafka_consumer' only supports Kafka v0.8+.
# Read metrics from Kafka topic(s)
[[inputs.kafka_consumer_legacy]]
## topic(s) to consume
topics = ["telegraf"]
## an array of Zookeeper connection strings
zookeeper_peers = ["localhost:2181"]
## Zookeeper Chroot
zookeeper_chroot = ""
## the name of the consumer group
consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"
## Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
offset = "oldest"
## Data format to consume.
## Each data format has its 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"
## Maximum length of a message to consume, in bytes (default 0/unlimited);
## larger messages are dropped
max_message_len = 65536
Testing
Running integration tests requires running Zookeeper & Kafka. See Makefile
for kafka container command.