Issue Enable SASL Authentication for Kafka Output in Filebeat Configuration

Elastic Stack Beats
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output.kafka:
hosts: ["10.42.41.55:19094"]
topic: 'npc-raw-msg'
key: '%{[UUID]}'
codec.format:
string: '%{[message]}'
partition.round_robin:
reachable_only: false
required_acks: 1
compression: gzip
max_message_bytes: 1000000
close_inactive: 10m
sasl.mechanism: SCRAM-SHA-512
sasl.username: "test-user-ranjith"
sasl.password: "xSBWc2w6NmkiPi4+YyBs"
security.protocol: SASL_PLAINTEXT

logging.level: debug
logging.to_files: true
logging.files:
path: /var/log/filebeat-kafka
name: filebeat
keepfiles: 7
permissions: 0644

0400","log.logger":"publisher","log.origin":{"function":"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/publisher/pipeline.(*queueReader).run","file.name":"pipeline/queue_reader.go","file.line":54},"message":"pipeline event consumer queue reader: stop","service.name":"filebeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2025-10-09T05:54:05.051-0400","log.logger":"kafka","log.origin":{"function":"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/outputs/kafka.(*client).errorWorker","file.name":"kafka/client.go","file.line":338},"message":"Ksettings)","service.name":"filebeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2025-10-09T05:54:

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I've moved this to the beat forum - it's not an Elasticsearch issue.