Kafka OTLP

Supported Platforms

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_topics	strings	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
log_text_encoding	enum	utf-8	The text encoding to use when text is selected for log_encoding. Common values are: nop, utf-8, utf-16le, utf-16be, ascii, or big5 but other IANA encodings may be specified.
metric_topics	strings	otlp_metrics	The topic name for subscribing to metric events.
metric_encoding	enum	otlp_proto	The encoding of the metric event pulled from the topic. otlp_proto or otlp_json
trace_topics	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