Kafka Broker filter

    Attention

    The Kafka broker filter is only included in

    Attention

    The kafka_broker filter is experimental and is currently under active development. Capabilities will be expanded over time and the configuration structures are likely to change.

    The Kafka Broker filter should be chained with the TCP proxy filter as shown in the configuration snippet below:

    The Kafka broker needs to advertise the Envoy listener port instead of its own.

    1. # (will receive payloads from Envoy).
    2. # (will make clients discovering this broker talk to it through Envoy).

    Statistics

    Every configured Kafka Broker filter has statistics rooted at kafka.<stat_prefix>., with multiple statistics per message type.