# Logstash with Kafka

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 22, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776 "2015-12-22T17:05:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/1 "2015-12-22T17:05:24Z")

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Does logstash support kafka 0.9? I am not seeing anything about the Kafka version in the logstash-kafka [doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-kafka.html).

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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:** [December 22, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/2 "2015-12-22T17:42:22Z")

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They are working on a 0.9 consumer.

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-kafka/pull/53>

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**Author:** ![tguan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tguan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tguan)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/3 "2015-12-22T19:04:16Z")

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Any good example for specifying the message\_key for Kafka to balance the messages to be stored on different partition on the server side? I have 3 partitions in the topic, and running 3 logstash instances. Hope to see each Logstash instance would read messages off different partition. Looks like all the messages are coming to the same partition.

I am using timestamp as the message key from client side.

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:** [December 22, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/4 "2015-12-22T20:08:00Z")

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@tguan please start your own thread, your question does not relate to this.

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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/5 "2015-12-29T11:34:05Z")

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When this will be released any idea?

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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 10, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/6 "2016-01-10T21:55:28Z")

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Deb the best bet right now is to build your own logstash install with the  
0.9 branch and test it out. We'd appreciate any pre-release feedback.

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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, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-with-kafka/37776/7 "2017-07-06T05:16:12Z")

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