Custom Kafka Log integration

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| Version | 1.7.0 (View all) |
| Compatible Kibana version(s) | 8.13.0 or higher |
| Supported Serverless project types
What’s this? | Security
Observability |
| Subscription level
What’s this? | Basic |
| Level of support
What’s this? | Elastic |

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The custom Kafka log integration is used to read from topics in a Kafka cluster.

To configure this integration, specify a list of one or more hosts in the cluster to bootstrap the connection with, a list of topics to track, and a group_id for the connection.

This Integration works with all Kafka versions in between 0.11 and 2.8.0. Older versions might work as well, but are not supported.

Custom ingest pipelines may be added by adding the name to the pipeline configuration option, creating custom ingest pipelines can be done either through the API or the Ingest Node Pipeline UI (use the global search field to search for "ingest pipelines").

ECS Field Reference

Please refer to the following document for detailed information on ECS fields.