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Kafka OTLP
Kafka OTLP
Note
This feature is available as an add-on for the
Honeycomb Enterprise plan.
Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.
| Platform |
Metrics |
Logs |
Traces |
| Linux |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Windows |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| macOS |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Configuration Table 
No encoding field for metric events is available because the only option, otlp_proto, is set by default.
| Parameter |
Type |
Default |
Description |
| telemetry_types |
telemetrySelector |
["Logs", "Metrics", "Traces"] |
Choose Telemetry Type. |
| 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 |
List of brokers to connect and subscribe to for metrics, traces, and logs. |
| group_id |
string |
otel-collector |
Consumer group to consume messages from. |
| client_id |
string |
otel-collector |
The consumer client ID that the receiver will use. |
| log_topic |
string |
otlp_logs |
The topic name for subscribing to log events. |
| log_encoding |
enum |
otlp_proto |
The encoding of the log event pulled from the Kafka topic. otlp_proto, raw, text, or json |
| metric_topic |
string |
otlp_metrics |
The topic name for subscribing to metric events. |
| trace_topic |
string |
otlp_spans |
The topic name for subscribing to trace events. |
| trace_encoding |
enum |
otlp_proto |
The encoding of the trace event pulled from the Kafka topic. otlp_proto, jaeger_proto, jaeger_json, zipkin_proto, zipkin_json, or zipkin_thrift |
| enable_auth |
bool |
false |
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| auth_type |
enum |
basic |
basic, sasl, or kerberos |
| basic_username |
string |
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| basic_password |
string |
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| sasl_username |
string |
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| sasl_password |
enum |
|
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| sasl_mechanism |
string |
SCRAM-SHA-256 |
SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, or PLAIN |
| kerberos_service_name |
string |
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| kerberos_realm |
string |
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| kerberos_config_file |
string |
/etc/krb5.conf |
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| kerberos_auth_type |
enum |
keytab |
keytab or basic |
| kerberos_keytab_file |
string |
/etc/security/kafka.keytab |
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| kerberos_username |
string |
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| kerberos_password |
string |
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