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 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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You can configure the Kafka profile to use authentication via Kerberos and SSL encryption. Supported properties for this are available in the Producer and Consumer tabs in the Kafka profile. See https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/kafka/latest/topics/kafka_security.html for further information on how to configure this.
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