How to setup Kafka output in Filebeat

[elasticheart]

Hi,

I have the following Filebeat configuration;

output.kafka:
  enabled: true
  hosts: ["192.168.0.1:<PORT>"]
  topic: testtopic

What port should I provide here? I am entirely new to Kafka. I have Kafka installed and I have the following config files under config folder;

• connect-console-sink.properties
• connect-console-source.properties
• connect-distributed.properties
• connect-file-sink.properties
• connect-file-source.properties
• connect-log4j.properties
• connect-standalone.properties
• consumer.properties
• log4j.properties
• producer.properties
• server.properties
• tools-log4j.properties
• zookeeper.properties

I have seen clientPort=2181 in zookeeper.properties and bootstrap.servers=192.168.0.1:9092 in producer.properties. So, what port should I mention in filebeat and where can I get that from?

Thanks.

[steffens (Steffen Siering)]

In hosts setting you normally configure you bootstrapping brokers. These will provide the cluster meta-data used to find all brokers in the cluster. The kafka brokers normally use port 9092 (search for 'listeners' in server.propoerties).

[elasticheart]

Thank you so much @steffens People like you is the most important part of a discussion forum like this. There may be persons who already know solution, but hesitate to share their knowledge / answer questions, regardless of it's gravity, but the thing which is appreciable is your attitude, which made you respond to questions like these.