Kafkabeat

Kafkabeat is an elastic Beat that reads events from one or more Kafka topics and forwards them to Logstash (or any other configured output).

The Kafka consumer implements an at-least-once behaviour which means that messages may be forwarded to the configured output more than once.

Getting Started with Kafkabeat

Requirements

Golang 1.7

Building

# Make sure $GOPATH is set
go get github.com/justsocialapps/kafkabeat
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/justsocialapps/kafkabeat
make

Running

To run Kafkabeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./kafkabeat -c kafkabeat.yml -e -d "*"

Configuring

An example configuration can be found in the file kafkabeat.yml. The following parameters are specific to Kafkabeat:

kafkabeat:
    # a list of Kafka brokers to connect to
    brokers: ["localhost:9092"]
    # A list of topics to subscribe to
    topics: ["tracking"]
    # The consumer group to join
    group: "kafkabeat"

Testing

To test Kafkabeat, run the following command:

make testsuite

alternatively:

make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report

The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/