# Unable to make Kafka Integration to work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-make-kafka-integration-to-work/319932>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Tags:** integrations\
**Created:** [November 28, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-make-kafka-integration-to-work/319932 "2022-11-28T10:05:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![natbronislavska](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3e96dc/32.png) [@natbronislavska](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/natbronislavska)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-make-kafka-integration-to-work/319932/1 "2022-11-28T10:05:59Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I have Elastic Search with fleet, elastic-agent and Kibana, all in version 8.4.3. I am trying to work with integrations and I have successfully enabled few of them. However, I have trouble enabling kafka integration.

The policy (collecting logs) requires me to fill kafka home directory and path to logs. I don't have kafka installed directly on my host - it's running in the container, so I can easily specify the path for logs, but I am not sure what to fill as kafka home directory, so that my integration worked properly.

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**Author:** ![Agi\_K\_Thomas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/agi_k_thomas/32/130842_2.png) [@Agi\_K\_Thomas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Agi_K_Thomas)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-make-kafka-integration-to-work/319932/2 "2022-11-29T05:51:53Z")

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This is not related to Elasticsearch instead it is more related to how to exchange logs.

You may refer the concept of volume mount .

If you are using docker containers, [refer](https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/).

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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:** [December 27, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-make-kafka-integration-to-work/319932/3 "2022-12-27T05:52:24Z")

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