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# Kafka Cluster

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<Note>
  This feature is available as an add-on for the [Honeycomb Enterprise plan](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/).
  Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.
</Note>

## Supported Platforms

| Platform | Metrics | Logs | Traces |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| Linux | ✓ | | |
| Windows | ✓ | | |
| macOS | ✓ | | |

## Configuration Table

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| cluster\_name\* | `string` | | Friendly name used for the resource kafka.cluster.name. |
| protocol\_version | `enum` | "2.0.0" | The Kafka protocol version to use when communicating with brokers. Valid values are: `"2.2.1"`, `"2.2.0"`, `"2.0.0"`, or `"1.0.0"`. |
| brokers | `strings` | localhost:9092 | List of brokers to scrape for metrics. |
| client\_id | `string` | otel-metrics-receiver | The consumer client ID that the receiver will use. |
| collection\_interval | `int` | 60 | Sets how often (seconds) to scrape for metrics. |
| enable\_auth | `bool` | false | |
| auth\_type | `enum` | basic | `basic`, `sasl`, or `kerberos` |
| basic\_username | `string` | | |
| basic\_password | `string` | | |
| sasl\_username | `string` | | |
| sasl\_password | `string` | | |
| sasl\_mechanism | `enum` | SCRAM-SHA-256 | `SCRAM-SHA-256`, `SCRAM-SHA-512`, or `PLAIN` |
| kerberos\_service\_name | `string` | | |
| kerberos\_realm | `string` | | |
| kerberos\_config\_file | `string` | /etc/krb5.conf | |
| kerberos\_auth\_type | `enum` | keytab | `keytab` or `basic` |
| kerberos\_keytab\_file | `string` | /etc/security/kafka.keytab | |
| kerberos\_username | `string` | | |
| kerberos\_password | `string` | | |