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# Kafka OTLP

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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

No encoding field for metric events is available because the only option, `otlp_proto`, is set by default.

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| telemetry\_types | `telemetrySelector` | `["Logs", "Metrics", "Traces"]` | Choose Telemetry Type. |
| 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 connect and subscribe to for metrics, traces, and logs. |
| group\_id | `string` | otel-collector | Consumer group to consume messages from. |
| client\_id | `string` | otel-collector | The consumer client ID that the receiver will use. |
| log\_topic | `string` | otlp\_logs | The topic name for subscribing to log events. |
| log\_encoding | `enum` | otlp\_proto | The encoding of the log event pulled from the Kafka topic. `otlp_proto`, `raw`, `text`, or `json` |
| metric\_topic | `string` | otlp\_metrics | The topic name for subscribing to metric events. |
| trace\_topic | `string` | otlp\_spans | The topic name for subscribing to trace events. |
| trace\_encoding | `enum` | otlp\_proto | The encoding of the trace event pulled from the Kafka topic. `otlp_proto`, `jaeger_proto`, `jaeger_json`, `zipkin_proto`, `zipkin_json`, or `zipkin_thrift` |
| enable\_auth | `bool` | false | |
| auth\_type | `enum` | basic | `basic`, `sasl`, or `kerberos` |
| basic\_username | `string` | | |
| basic\_password | `string` | | |
| sasl\_username | `string` | | |
| sasl\_password | `enum` | | |
| sasl\_mechanism | `string` | 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` | | |