Forwarding to Kafka Topic

Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients that communicate via a high-performance TCP network protocol. It can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual machines, or containers in on-premise as well as cloud environments.

Events are organized and durably stored in topics. Very simplified, a topic is similar to a folder in a filesystem, and the events are the files in that folder.

Configure Event Forwarder Integration with a Kafka Topic

To forward secure data to Kafka:

  1. From the Settings module of the Sysdig Secure UI, navigate to the Events Forwarding tab.

  2. Click the Add Integration button.

  3. Select Kafka topic from the drop-down menu.

  4. Configure the required options:

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    1. Integration Name: Define an integration name.

    2. Brokers: Kafka server endpoints. A Kafka cluster may provide several brokers; it follows the “hostname: port” (without protocol scheme). You can list several using a comma-separated list.

    3. Topic: Kafka topic where you want to store the forwarded data

      Partitioner/Balancer: Algorithm that the client uses to multiplex data between the multiple Brokers. For compatibility with the Java client, Murmur2 is used as the default partitioner. Supported algorithms are:

      • Murmur2

      • Round robin

      • Least bytes

      • Hash

      • CRC32

    4. Compression: Compression standard used for the data. Supported algorithms are:

      • LZ4

      • Snappy

      • Gzip

      • Standard

    5. Data to send: At present, the integration with Kafka topic supports forwarding Secure Policy Events

    6. Select whether or not you want to allow insecure connections (i.e. invalid or self-signed certificate on the receiving side).

    7. Toggle the enable switch as necessary. Remember that you will need to “Test Integration” with the button below before enabling the integration.

  5. Click the Save button to save the integration.