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Output events and detections to a Kafka target.
dest_host
: the IP or DNS and port to connect to, formatkafka.myorg.com
.is_tls
: iftrue
will output over TCP/TLS.is_strict_tls
: iftrue
will enforce validation of TLS certs.username
: if specified along withpassword
, use for Basic authentication.password
: if specified along withusername
, use for Basic authentication.routing_topic
: use the element with this name from therouting
of the event as the Kafka topic name.literal_topic
: use this specific value as a topic.
Note on authentication: if you specify username
and password
, the authentication mechanism assumed is SASL_SSL + SCRAM-SHA-512, which should be compatible with services like AWS Manages Streaming Kafka. If you require different paramaters around authentication please contact us at support@limacharlie.io.
Example:
dest_host: kafka.corp.com
is_tls: "true"
is_strict_tls: "true"
username: lc
password: letmein
literal_topic: telemetry
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