| 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 | |
| auth_type | enum | basic | basic, sasl, or kerberos |
| basic_username | string | | |
| basic_password | string | | |
| sasl_username | string | | |
| sasl_password | enum | | |
| sasl_mechanism | string | SCRAM-SHA-256 | SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, or PLAIN |
| kerberos_service_name | string | | |
| kerberos_realm | string | | |
| kerberos_config_file | string | /etc/krb5.conf | |
| kerberos_auth_type | enum | keytab | keytab or basic |
| kerberos_keytab_file | string | /etc/security/kafka.keytab | |
| kerberos_username | string | | |
| kerberos_password | string | | |
