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# Kafka

## Description

This is a pull source. You can enable a source within Pipeline to collect events from Kafka compatible brokers.

## Configuration

You can configure the source as described in the table below.

### Configuration Options

| Option         | Description                                                                      |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Title          | Title of your source                                                             |
| Description    | Description of your source                                                       |
| Brokers        | A broker is an array of key/value pairs for each host and port of a Kafka broker |
| Host           | The host name of IP address of the broker                                        |
| Port           | The port that the broker listens on                                              |
| Topics         | List of Kafka topic names to read events from                                    |
| Consumer Group | The consumer group name to be used to consume events from Kafka                  |
| TLS Enabled    | On/off toggle for using TLS for outgoing messages                                |
| SASL/SCRAM     | On/off toggle for authentication                                                 |
| Decoding       | Choose from bytes or JSON                                                        |
| SASL           | Choose from plain, SCRAM-SHA-512, or SCRAM-SHA-256                               |
| Username       | The SASL/SCRAM username                                                          |
| Password       | The SASL/SCRAM password                                                          |