# Configuring Kafka Input with SASL PLAINTEXT auth
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-kafka-input-with-sasl-plaintext-auth/219485
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-kafka-input-with-sasl-plaintext-auth/219485 "2020-02-15T16:51:04Z")
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### Author:  [@chadskidmore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chadskidmore)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-kafka-input-with-sasl-plaintext-auth/219485/1 "2020-02-15T16:51:05Z")
Having some struggles getting kafka-input setup in logstash with SASL PLAINTEXT. Documentation seems to be largely non-existent. I did seem to get Beats sending data in to Kafka with this auth scheme.
The input is pretty basic:
input {
kafka {
bootstrap\_servers =\> "10.99.250.74:9092"
topics =\> ["beats-llk"]
sasl\_jaas\_config =\> "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='admin' password='SOMEPASS';"
sasl\_mechanism =\> "PLAIN"
group\_id =\> "logstash-llk"
}
}
I have tried using a specific user for logstash that limits access via ACL to just the topics we want it to touch and that was failing so I opened it up to the main admin/superuser password just to try and eliminate ACL issues. In the kafka server I am seeing the following messages stream out:
`[2020-02-15 08:31:44,680] INFO [SocketServer brokerId=1] Failed authentication with /10.99.242.21 (Unexpected Kafka request of type METADATA during SASL handshake.) (org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector)`
Any suggestions or pointers to something better than super basic docs would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-kafka-input-with-sasl-plaintext-auth/219485/2 "2020-03-14T16:51:05Z")
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