topic

Identifies one or more Kafka topics from which imkafka consumes messages.

This parameter applies to imkafka: read from Apache Kafka.

Name:

topic

Scope:

input

Type:

array

Required?:

yes

Introduced:

8.27.0

Description

Specifies the Kafka topic or topics to consume from. A single topic name may be given as a string. Multiple topics may be given as an array, allowing one input() to consume from several topics at once.

Input usage

Single topic:

module(load="imkafka")
input(type="imkafka"
      topic="mytopic"
      broker="localhost:9092"
      consumergroup="default")

Multiple topics:

module(load="imkafka")
input(type="imkafka"
      topic=["topic1", "topic2", "topic3"]
      broker="localhost:9092"
      consumergroup="default")

See also

See also imkafka: read from Apache Kafka.

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