# Support for metrics for kafka consumer group using new Consumer Rebalance Protocol **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Agent\ **Created:** [September 29, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-metrics-for-kafka-consumer-group-using-new-consumer-rebalance-protocol/390766 "2026-09-29T20:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rakesh.iitism95](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rakesh.iitism95/32/124209_2.png) [@rakesh.iitism95](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rakesh.iitism95)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-metrics-for-kafka-consumer-group-using-new-consumer-rebalance-protocol/390766/1 "2026-09-29T20:29:36Z")
We are currently using elastic agent to collect kafka consumer group metric. After a consumer group was configured to use the new consumer rebalance protocol available in Kafka 4.0 , the agent was not collecting the metric for this kafka consumer group. Current agent version being used is 9.2.4. I checked the documentation if the agent is able to collect metric for consumer groups using the new rebalance protocol, I could not find any reference in the docuementation. I also checked that sarama started supporting this feature only from 1.61.0 ([link](https://github.com/IBM/sarama/discussions/3761), [link](https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3748/changes)), check for kip-848). And it seems the sarama included with elastic agent is older one (sarama v1.46.3, as I can infer from [GitHub - elastic/sarama: Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka 0.8, and up. ยท GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/sarama) ). Even the otel collector version is older one, only supporting kafka 2.x and kafka 3.x. I tried to do investigation but I might be completely wrong. Question: Is the consumer group using the kip-848 rebalance protocol supported by elastic agent? If not, when is it planned to be supported?