Kafka Notification Settings
This page documents settings for configuring an Kafka service as a target for Bucket Notifications. See Publish Events to Kafka for a tutorial on using these settings.
You can establish or modify settings by defining:
an environment variable on the host system prior to starting or restarting the MinIO Server. Refer to your operating system’s documentation for how to define an environment variable.
a configuration setting using
mc admin config set
.a configuration setting using the MinIO Console’s Administrator > Settings pages.
If you define both an environment variable and the similar configuration setting, MinIO uses the environment variable value.
Some settings have only an environment variable or a configuration setting, but not both.
Important
Each configuration setting controls fundamental MinIO behavior and functionality. MinIO strongly recommends testing configuration changes in a lower environment, such as DEV or QA, before applying to production.
Multiple Kafka Targets
You can specify multiple Kafka service endpoints by appending a unique identifier _ID
for each set of related Kafka settings on to the top level key.
Examples
For example, the following commands set two distinct Kafka service endpoints as PRIMARY
and SECONDARY
respectively:
set MINIO_NOTIFY_KAFKA_ENABLE_PRIMARY="on"
set MINIO_NOTIFY_KAFKA_BROKERS_PRIMARY="https://kafka1.example.net:9200, https://kafka2.example.net:9200"
set MINIO_NOTIFY_KAFKA_ENABLE_SECONDARY="on"
set MINIO_NOTIFY_KAFKA_BROKERS_SECONDARY="https://kafka1.example.net:9200, https://kafka2.example.net:9200"
mc admin config set notify_kafka:primary \
brokers="https://kafka1.example.net:9200, https://kafka2.example.net:9200"
[ARGUMENT=VALUE ...]
mc admin config set notify_kafka:secondary \
brokers="https://kafka1.example.net:9200, https://kafka2.example.net:9200"
[ARGUMENT=VALUE ...]
Notice that for configuration settings, the unique identifier appends to notify_kafka
only, not to each individual argument.
Settings
Enable
Required
Specify on
to enable publishing bucket notifications to a Kafka service endpoint.
Defaults to off
.
The top-level configuration key for defining an Kafka service endpoint for use with MinIO bucket notifications.
Use mc admin config set
to set or update an Kafka service endpoint.
The brokers
argument is required for each target.
Specify additional optional arguments as a whitespace (" "
)-delimited list.
mc admin config set notify_kafka \
brokers="https://kafka1.example.net:9200, https://kafka2.example.net:9200"
[ARGUMENT="VALUE"] ... \
Brokers
Required
Specify a comma-separated list of Kafka broker addresses. For example:
"kafka1.example.com:2021,kafka2.example.com:2021"
Changed in version RELEASE.2023-05-27T05-56-19Z: MinIO checks the health of the specified URL (if it is resolvable and reachable) prior to adding the target. MinIO no longer blocks adding new notification targets if existing targets are offline.
Topic
Optional
Specify the name of the Kafka topic to which MinIO publishes bucket events.
SASL
Optional
Specify on
to enable SASL authentication.
SASL Username
Optional
Specify the username for performing SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication to the Kafka broker(s).
SASL Password
Optional
Specify the password for performing SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication to the Kafka broker(s).
Changed in version RELEASE.2023-06-23T20-26-00Z: MinIO redacts this value when returned as part of mc admin config get
.
SASL Mechanism
Optional
Specify the SASL mechanism to use for authenticating to the Kafka broker(s). MinIO supports the following mechanisms:
PLAIN
(Default)SHA256
SHA512
TLS Client Auth
Optional
Specify the client authentication type of the Kafka broker(s). The following table lists the supported values and their mappings
Value |
Authentication Type |
---|---|
0 |
|
1 |
|
2 |
|
3 |
|
4 |
|
See ClientAuthType for more information on each client auth type.
TLS
Optional
Specify on
to enable TLS connectivity to the Kafka broker(s).
TLS Skip Verify
Optional
Enables or disables TLS verification of the NATS service endpoint TLS certificates.
Specify
on
to disable TLS verification (Default).Specify
off
to enable TLS verification.
Client TLS Cert
Optional
Specify the path to the client certificate to use for performing mTLS authentication to the Kafka broker(s).
Client TLS Key
Optional
Specify the path to the client private key to use for performing mTLS authentication to the Kafka broker(s).
Version
Optional
Specify the version of the Kafka cluster to assume when performing operations against that cluster. See the sarama reference documentation for more information on this field’s behavior.
Batch Size
Optional
Specify the integer value to use as the batch size for sending records to Kafka.
Changed in version RELEASE.2023-12-02T10-51-33Z: MinIO previously limited this value to 100
.
Queue Directory
Optional
Specify the directory path to enable MinIO’s persistent event store for undelivered messages, such as /opt/minio/events
.
MinIO stores undelivered events in the specified store while the Kafka server/broker is offline and replays the stored events when connectivity resumes.
Queue Limit
Optional
Specify the maximum limit for undelivered messages.
Defaults to 100000
.
Comment
Optional
Specify a comment to associate with the Kafka configuration.
Compression Codec
New in version MinIO: Server RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z
Optional
Specify the compression codec to use when sending records to Kafka.
Supports the following values:
none
snappy
gzip
lz4
zstd
Compression Level
New in version MinIO: Server RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z
Optional
Controls the level of compression applied based on the configured compression codec.
Specify an integer value greater than or equal to 0
.
The effect of the value depends on the selected codec.