Kafka REST Proxy
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The kafka-rest output plugin, allows to flush your records into a Kafka REST Proxy server. The following instructions assumes that you have a fully operational Kafka REST Proxy and Kafka services running in your environment.
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Kafka REST Proxy output plugin supports TLS/SSL, for more details about the properties available and general configuration, please refer to the TLS/SSL section.
In order to insert records into a Kafka REST Proxy service, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
The kafka-rest plugin, can read the parameters from the command line in two ways, through the -p argument (property), e.g:
In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:
Host
IP address or hostname of the target Kafka REST Proxy server
127.0.0.1
Port
TCP port of the target Kafka REST Proxy server
8082
Topic
Set the Kafka topic
fluent-bit
Partition
Set the partition number (optional)
Message_Key
Set a message key (optional)
Time_Key
The Time_Key property defines the name of the field that holds the record timestamp.
@timestamp
Time_Key_Format
Defines the format of the timestamp.
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
Include_Tag_Key
Append the Tag name to the final record.
Off
Tag_Key
If Include_Tag_Key is enabled, this property defines the key name for the tag.
_flb-key
Workers
The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output.
0