README.md

fluent-plugin-out-kafka-rest, a plugin for Fluentd (WIP)

A fluentd output plugin for sending logs to Kafka REST Proxy. This plugin does not use the native library of Apache Kafka itself. Please refer to Confluent's kakfa-rest for the detail of REST Proxy service.

Configs

<match *>
  type                   kafka_rest
  endpoint_url           http://localhost.local:8082/topics/topic
  token                  authtoken
  time_key               log_time
  time_key_format        %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%L %Z
  remove_key_name_field  true
  # use_ssl              false
  # rate_limit_msec 0
</match>

use https

When you use https instead of http, set "use_ssl" to true.

The following is an example.

<match *>
  type                   kafka_rest
  endpoint_url           https://localhost.local:8082/topics/topic
  token                  authtoken
  use_ssl                true
  time_key               log_time
  time_key_format        %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%L %Z
  remove_key_name_field  true
  # rate_limit_msec 0
</match>

For additional buffer configuration, refer https://docs.fluentd.org/configuration/buffer-section

ToDo

• Change tests
• Avro support

Note

• Set use_ssl to true to use https connection
• By default, it does not verify the https server. Use VERIFY_PEER and place the cert.pem to the location specified by OpenSSL::X509::DEFAULT_CERT_FILE.
• Majority of the code are cloned from fluent-plugin-out-https