# Does Logstash 2.1.1 work well with Kafka 0.9.0?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 11, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831 "2016-01-11T05:15:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenny\_Qiao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ab992/32.png) [@Kenny\_Qiao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kenny_Qiao)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/1 "2016-01-11T05:15:09Z")

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I plan to upgrade Kafka to 0.9.0 and wondering if logstash 2.1.1 could work well with Kafka 0.9.0.  
Does anyone have experience using logstash 2.1.1 with Kafka0.9.0 in production?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/2 "2016-01-11T13:22:09Z")

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It's not ready as of this moment - [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-kafka/issues/48](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-kafka/issues/48)

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**Author:** ![mikesparr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikesparr/32/4619_2.png) [@mikesparr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikesparr)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/3 "2016-01-11T19:12:40Z")

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Works fine here and pushing soon to production.

Beats -\> Logstash -\> Kafka \<- Logstash -\> ES

I'm using it in staging and consumed 150 million events from Beats (top, file, packet) in past few days without issue, published to Kafka topics, and another Logstash instance consumed topics and published to ES. Upgraded ES and LS to 2.1.1, added Beats, and Confluent Platform 2.0 (with Kafka 0.9.0). No issues.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b1df1f681d2ab16ce01e3d09a2abd604c6868d54.png)

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_lawson/32/3390_2.png) [@Joe\_Lawson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Lawson)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/4 "2016-01-11T21:41:50Z")

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Thanks for the feedback!

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**Author:** ![allenmchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@allenmchan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/allenmchan)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/5 "2016-01-13T01:39:47Z")

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@mikesparr, Can you share in general your hardware specs?

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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 6, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-2-1-1-work-well-with-kafka-0-9-0/38831/6 "2017-07-06T05:15:59Z")

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