Kafka configuration

kestra.kafka.client.properties

Most important configuration is to configure the way Kestra connect to the Kafka cluster.

Here is a minimal configuration example :

kestra:
  kafka:
    client:
      properties:
        bootstrap.servers: "localhost:9092"
  queue:
    type: kafka

Here is another example with a secure Kafka cluster hosted by Aiven (opens new window):

kestra:
  kafka:
    client:
      properties:
        bootstrap.servers: "your-host.aivencloud.com:12835"
        security.protocol: "SSL"
        ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm: ""
        ssl.key.password: "<your-password>"
        ssl.keystore.location: "/etc/ssl/private/keystore.p12"
        ssl.keystore.password: "<your-password>"
        ssl.keystore.type: "PKCS12"
        ssl.truststore.location: "/etc/ssl/private/truststore.jks"
        ssl.truststore.password: "<your-password>"

  queue:
    type: kafka

properties is the standard Java Kafka client properties, more details can be found on Kafka Documentation (opens new window)

kestra.kafka.defaults.topic

By default, Kestra automatically creates all the topics needed, you can change partition & replication factor of these topics :

• kestra.kafka.defaults.topic.partitions: (default 16)
• kestra.kafka.defaults.topic.replication-factor: (default 1)

kestra.kafka.defaults.[consumer|producer|stream].properties

You can change the default properties of the Kafka client used by Kestra. These allow you to change compression, max request, etc...

Here is the default configuration :

kestra:
  kafka:
    defaults:
      consumer:
        properties:
          isolation.level: "read_committed"
          auto.offset.reset: "earliest"
          enable.auto.commit: "false"

      producer:
        properties:
          acks: "all"
          compression.type: "lz4"
          max.request.size: "10485760"

      stream:
        properties:
          processing.guarantee: "exactly_once"
          replication.factor: "${kestra.kafka.defaults.topic.replication-factor}"
          acks: "all"
          compression.type: "lz4"
          max.request.size: "10485760"

kestra.kafka.defaults.topics

All the topics used by Kestra are declared with default name & properties. You can change the default values:

• kestra.kafka.defaults.topics..name: Change the name of this topic.
• kestra.kafka.defaults.topics..properties: Change the default properties used during topic automatic creation.

You can see default configuration on this file (opens new window)

kestra.kafka.defaults.consumer-prefix

This configuration allow you to change the consumer-group prefix. By default, the prefix will be kestra.

For example, if you want to share a common Kafka cluster for the multiple instances of Kestra, add a different prefix for each instance like this:

kestra:
  kafka:
    defaults:
      consumer-prefix: "uat_kestra"

kestra.kafka.defaults.topic-prefix

This configuration allow you to change the topic prefix. By default, the prefix will be kestra_.

For example, if you want to share a common Kafka cluster for the multiple instances of Kestra, add a different prefix for each instance like this:

kestra:
  kafka:
    defaults:
      topic-prefix: "uat_kestra"

kestra.kafka.client.loggers

This configuration allow you to enable log for all messages from or to Kafka. Use this one to debug all the messages consumed, produced or both from Kafka.

WARNING

This configuration have a huge performance impact, using regexp & serialization for most of the messages.

kestra:
  kafka:
    client:
      loggers:
        - level: INFO # mandatory: ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE, the logger must be configured at least at this level for class io.kestra.runner.kafka.AbstractInterceptor
          type: PRODUCER # optional: CONSUMER or PRODUCER
          topic-regexp: "kestra_(executions|workertaskresult)" # optional: a regexp validating the topic
          key-regexp: .*parallel.* # optional: a regexp validating the key
          value-regexp: .*parallel.* # optional: a regexp validating the json full body