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Consume Consume

yaml
type: "io.kestra.plugin.kafka.Consume"

Consume messages from one or more Kafka topics

Examples

yaml
id: "consume"
type: "io.kestra.plugin.kafka.Consume"
topic: test_kestra
properties:
  bootstrap.servers: localhost:9092
serdeProperties:
  schema.registry.url: http://localhost:8085
keyDeserializer: STRING
valueDeserializer: AVRO

Connect to a cluster with SSL

yaml
id: "consume"
type: "io.kestra.plugin.kafka.Consume"
properties:
  security.protocol: SSL
  bootstrap.servers: server.aivencloud.com:12835
  ssl.key.password: my-ssl-password
  ssl.keystore.type: PKCS12
  ssl.keystore.location: my-base64-encoded-keystore
  ssl.keystore.password: my-ssl-password
  ssl.truststore.location: my-base64-encoded-truststore
  ssl.truststore.password: my-ssl-password
topic:
- kestra_workerinstance
keyDeserializer: STRING
valueDeserializer: STRING

Properties

keyDeserializer

  • Type: object
  • Dynamic:
  • Required: ✔️

pollDuration

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required: ✔️
  • Default: 5.000000000
  • Format: duration

How often to poll for a record

If no records are available, the maximum wait duration to wait for new records.

properties

  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required: ✔️

Connection properties

The bootstrap.servers property is a minimal required configuration to connect to a Kafka topic. This property can reference any valid Consumer Configs or Producer Configs as key-value pairs.

If you want to pass a truststore or a keystore, you must provide a base64 encoded string for ssl.keystore.location and ssl.truststore.location.

topic

  • Type: object
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required: ✔️

Kafka topic(s) to consume messages from

It can be a string or a list of strings to consume from one or multiple topics.

valueDeserializer

  • Type: object
  • Dynamic:
  • Required: ✔️

groupId

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The consumer group

Using a consumer group, we will fetch only records that haven't been consumed yet.

maxDuration

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Format: duration

The maximum duration to wait for new records before stopping the consumption process.

It's a soft limit evaluated every second.

maxRecords

  • Type: integer
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

The maximum number of records to fetch before stopping the consumption process.

It's a soft limit evaluated every second.

serdeProperties

  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Serializer configuration

Configuration that will be passed to serializer or deserializer. The avro.use.logical.type.converters is always passed when you have any values set to true.

since

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Timestamp of a message to start consuming messages from.

By default, we consume all messages from the topics with no consumer group or depending on the configuration of the auto.offset.reset property. However, you can provide an arbitrary start time. This property is ignored if a consumer group is used. It must be a valid ISO 8601 date.

Outputs

messagesCount

  • Type: integer

Number of messages consumed from a Kafka topic

uri

  • Type: string

URI of a kestra internal storage file containing the messages