<div dir="ltr">Hi Vincent,<div><br></div><div>I'm apologize for not contacting with you to discuss this question (it was my plan, but I run out of time and unfortunately I forgot it).</div><div><br></div><div>As you pointed out: in incubator there is a non-java based Kafka driver.</div><div>My plan is to keep it in the incubator and give the choice to the users.</div><div>If someone needs a non-java Kafka destination then we can say: we have such a driver in the incubator.</div><div>On the other hand, if someone wants to use a Kafka dst which is built around the official Kafka java client library,</div><div>then she/he can use it.</div><div>(Kafka was a really good candidate for implement it on the basis of the new Java language binding.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>L.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Vincent Bernat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernat@luffy.cx" target="_blank">bernat@luffy.cx</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> ❦ 17 août 2015 16:45 +0200, "Budai, László" <<a href="mailto:laszlo.budai@balabit.com">laszlo.budai@balabit.com</a>> :<br>
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> ElastiSearch, Kafka and HDFS destination drivers are implemented by<br>
> using the 'official' Java client libraries and syslog-ng provides a<br>
> way to set their own, native configuration file. Log messages<br>
> generated by the client Java libraries are redirected to syslog-ng via<br>
> our own Log4JAppender which means that those logs are available as<br>
> internal syslog-ng messages.<br>
><br>
> * ElasticSearch<br>
> * Kafka<br>
> * Hadoop/HDFS<br>
> * HTTP<br>
<br>
That's a great addition but there is a working Kafka driver not<br>
depending on JVM waiting in syslog-ng incubator. This JVM-based Kafka<br>
driver comes a bit as a surprise. What does it mean for the Kafka driver<br>
currently in the incubator?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use<br>
in reading it at all.<br>
-- Oscar Wilde<br>
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