topic

Identifies the Kafka topic from which imkafka consumes messages.

This parameter applies to imkafka: read from Apache Kafka.

Name:

topic

Scope:

input

Type:

string

Required?:

yes

Introduced:

8.27.0

Description

Specifies the name of the Kafka topic from which messages will be consumed. This is a mandatory parameter for the imkafka input.

Input usage

module(load="imkafka")
input(type="imkafka" topic="static")

See also

See also imkafka: read from Apache Kafka.

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