This section describes the Kafka agents. The agents are used to forward and collect messages using Kafka. Kafka is a cluster-based software that is executed outside ofexecuted outside of . Kafka uses a high throughput publish-subscriber messaging model. It persists all messages and by design it decouples the publisher from the subscriber. That means that the forwarding agent will keep writing to the log even if the collection agents terminate.
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The Kafka agents enable you to configure workflows in with with improved scalability and fault tolerance. As part of the data collection, data is written to Kafka to secure it from being lost if a failure occurs, and each topic can be set up to be replicated across several servers.
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