# Adding support for kerberos authentication for kafka output

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-support-for-kerberos-authentication-for-kafka-output/185020>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-development\
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-support-for-kerberos-authentication-for-kafka-output/185020 "2019-06-10T16:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![file\_descriptor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/file_descriptor/32/47816_2.png) [@file\_descriptor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/file_descriptor)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-support-for-kerberos-authentication-for-kafka-output/185020/1 "2019-06-10T16:13:49Z")

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Hello, I'm a junior dev willing to start looking into implementing kerberos authentication for the kafka output of the \*Beats products.

I've seen issues mentioning it, but to my knowledge nobody is working actively on it.

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/7404>

  

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/5413>

I'd appreciate any help on the matter I can receive, as well as tips and guidelines on how to properly contribute to the project.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-support-for-kerberos-authentication-for-kafka-output/185020/2 "2019-06-13T20:59:57Z")

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Hi @file_descriptor,

I can confirm that Kerberos support for the Kafka output is not being currently worked on. At this point I'd suggest commenting on [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/5413](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/5413), expressing your desire to work on this and perhaps explaining a little bit about how you plan to go about it — which areas of the code you see changing, any dependencies you might need, etc. If that all sounds good to the core team, you can go ahead with [signing the CLA and putting up a PR](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/beats-contributing.html#contribution-steps). Alternatively you can go ahead and sign the CLA and put up the PR directly but then you should expect discussion on the PR itself.

Hope that helps,

Shaunak

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-support-for-kerberos-authentication-for-kafka-output/185020/3 "2019-07-11T22:59:58Z")

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