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Chapter 3. Kafka Bridge configuration
Configure a deployment of the Kafka Bridge using configuration properties. Configure Kafka and specify the HTTP connection details needed to be able to interact with Kafka. You can also use configuration properties to enable and use distributed tracing with the Kafka Bridge. Distributed tracing allows you to track the progress of transactions between applications in a distributed system.
Use the KafkaBridge
resource to configure properties when you are running the Kafka Bridge on OpenShift.
3.1. Configuring Kafka Bridge properties
This procedure describes how to configure the Kafka and HTTP connection properties used by the Kafka Bridge.
You configure the Kafka Bridge, as any other Kafka client, using appropriate prefixes for Kafka-related properties.
-
kafka.
for general configuration that applies to producers and consumers, such as server connection and security. -
kafka.consumer.
for consumer-specific configuration passed only to the consumer. -
kafka.producer.
for producer-specific configuration passed only to the producer.
As well as enabling HTTP access to a Kafka cluster, HTTP properties provide the capability to enable and define access control for the Kafka Bridge through Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). CORS is a HTTP mechanism that allows browser access to selected resources from more than one origin. To configure CORS, you define a list of allowed resource origins and HTTP methods to access them. Additional HTTP headers in requests describe the CORS origins that are permitted access to the Kafka cluster.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Edit the
application.properties
file provided with the Kafka Bridge installation archive.Use the properties file to specify Kafka and HTTP-related properties.
Configure standard Kafka-related properties, including properties specific to the Kafka consumers and producers.
Use:
-
kafka.bootstrap.servers
to define the host/port connections to the Kafka cluster -
kafka.producer.acks
to provide acknowledgments to the HTTP client kafka.consumer.auto.offset.reset
to determine how to manage reset of the offset in KafkaFor more information on configuration of Kafka properties, see the Apache Kafka website
-
Configure HTTP-related properties to enable HTTP access to the Kafka cluster.
For example:
bridge.id=my-bridge http.host=0.0.0.0 http.port=8080 1 http.cors.enabled=true 2 http.cors.allowedOrigins=https://strimzi.io 3 http.cors.allowedMethods=GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS,PATCH 4
- Save the configuration file.
3.2. Configuring metrics
Enable metrics for the Kafka Bridge by setting the KAFKA_BRIDGE_METRICS_ENABLED
environment variable.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Set the environment variable for enabling metrics to
true
.Environment variable for enabling metrics
KAFKA_BRIDGE_METRICS_ENABLED=true
Run the Kafka Bridge script to enable metrics.
Running the Kafka Bridge to enable metrics
./bin/kafka_bridge_run.sh --config-file=<path>/application.properties
With metrics enabled, you can use
GET /metrics
with the/metrics
endpoint to retrieve Kafka Bridge metrics in Prometheus format.
3.3. Configuring distributed tracing
Enable distributed tracing to trace messages consumed and produced by the Kafka Bridge, and HTTP requests from client applications.
Properties to enable tracing are present in the application.properties
file. To enable distributed tracing, do the following:
-
Set the
bridge.tracing
property value to enable the tracing you want to use. The only possible value isopentelemetry
. - Set environment variables for tracing.
With the default configuration, OpenTelemetry tracing uses OTLP as the exporter protocol. By configuring the OTLP endpoint, you can still use a Jaeger backend instance to get traces.
Jaeger has supported the OTLP protocol since version 1.35. Older Jaeger versions cannot get traces using the OTLP protocol.
OpenTelemetry defines an API specification for collecting tracing data as spans of metrics data. Spans represent a specific operation. A trace is a collection of one or more spans.
Traces are generated when the Kafka Bridge does the following:
- Sends messages from Kafka to consumer HTTP clients
- Receives messages from producer HTTP clients to send to Kafka
Jaeger implements the required APIs and presents visualizations of the trace data in its user interface for analysis.
To have end-to-end tracing, you must configure tracing in your HTTP clients.
Streams for Apache Kafka no longer supports OpenTracing. If you were previously using OpenTracing with the bridge.tracing=jaeger
option, we encourage you to transition to using OpenTelemetry instead.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Edit the
application.properties
file provided with the Kafka Bridge installation archive.Use the
bridge.tracing
property to enable the tracing you want to use.Example configuration to enable OpenTelemetry
bridge.tracing=opentelemetry 1
- 1
- The property for enabling OpenTelemetry is uncommented by removing the
#
at the beginning of the line.
With tracing enabled, you initialize tracing when you run the Kafka Bridge script.
- Save the configuration file.
Set the environment variables for tracing.
Environment variables for OpenTelemetry
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=my-tracing-service 1 OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317 2
Run the Kafka Bridge script with the property enabled for tracing.
Running the Kafka Bridge with OpenTelemetry enabled
./bin/kafka_bridge_run.sh --config-file=<path>/application.properties
The internal consumers and producers of the Kafka Bridge are now enabled for tracing.
3.3.1. Specifying tracing systems with OpenTelemetry
Instead of the default OTLP tracing system, you can specify other tracing systems that are supported by OpenTelemetry.
If you want to use another tracing system with OpenTelemetry, do the following:
- Add the library of the tracing system to the Kafka classpath.
Add the name of the tracing system as an additional exporter environment variable.
Additional environment variable when not using OTLP
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=my-tracing-service OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=zipkin 1 OTEL_EXPORTER_ZIPKIN_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans 2
3.3.2. Supported Span attributes
The Kafka Bridge adds, in addition to the standard OpenTelemetry attributes, the following attributes from the OpenTelemetry standard conventions for HTTP to its spans.
Attribute key | Attribute value |
|
Hardcoded to |
| The http method used to make the request |
| The URI scheme component |
| The URI path component |
| The URI query component |
| The name of the Kafka topic being produced to or read from |
|
Hardcoded to |
|
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