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.
# 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"]
## 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
Running integration tests requires running Zookeeper & Kafka. See Makefile for kafka container command.