consumer_prometheus

This is a basic consumer that grabs flow data from a Kafka topic and exposes some stats using the Prometheus metric format.

Usage

The simplest call could look like this, which would start the consumer with TLS encryption and SASL auth enabled.
Exposed Stats are available via port 8080 to prometheus at /metrics and /flowdata endpoints.

./consumer_prometheus \
  --kafka.brokers=kafka.local:9092 \
  --kafka.topic=flows-enriched \
  --kafka.consumer_group=test-consumer-group \
  --kafka.user=username \
  --kafka.pass=ultraSecretPassword

Also check out our demo for more examples.

Additional options

Note that these values are set to false by default.
TLS and SASL auth can also be deactivated with:

  --kafka.disable_auth=true \
  --kafka.disable_tls=true \

There is also an option to connect as anon user to your kafka instance.

  --kafka.auth_anon=true