# Input plugin for kafka

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-kafka/85021>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-kafka/85021 "2017-05-09T07:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ymunakata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7cd45c/32.png) [@ymunakata](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ymunakata)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-kafka/85021/1 "2017-05-09T07:00:33Z")

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Does anyone use logstash input plugin for Kafka?

I try to consume data in Kafka with Kafka input plugin. logstash -debug prints it seems that logstash.conf has been loaded and logstash starts properly. After that logstash starts and shows

15:38:36.156 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Pipeline main started  
15:38:36.252 [Api Webserver] DEBUG logstash.agent - Starting puma  
15:38:36.258 [Api Webserver] DEBUG logstash.agent - Trying to start WebServer {:port=\>9600}  
15:38:36.270 [Api Webserver] DEBUG logstash.api.service - [api-service] start  
15:38:36.379 [Api Webserver] INFO logstash.agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9600}  
**15:38:41.237 [Ruby-0-Thread-8: /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:532] DEBUG logstash.pipeline - Pushing flush onto pipeline**

I cannot view the data over my Kibana.

Here are my setup.

a. Kafka 0.10.0.1  
b. logstash 5.4.0-1  
c. logstash.conf (it's minimum to narrow down the issue)

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input {  
kafka {  
topics =\> "ockafka"  
#enable\_auto\_commit =\> "false"  
}  
}

output {  
elasticsearch {  
}  
}

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Does anyone have a tips to use kafka input plugin? It would be great to share it with me.

Thanks in advance,  
Yuichiro

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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:** [June 6, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-kafka/85021/2 "2017-06-06T07:02:16Z")

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