Add note about scaling Elastic Agent with Kafka input (#41282) (#41375)

* Add note about scaling Elastic Agent with Kafka input * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie <[email protected]> * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie <[email protected]> * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit d2e6603) Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]>
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@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ might work as well, but are not supported.
 The `kafka` input supports the following configuration options plus the
 <<{beatname_lc}-input-{type}-common-options>> described later.
 
+NOTE: If you're using {agent} with a Kafka input and need to increase throughput, we recommend scaling horizontally by additional {agents} to read from the Kafka topic.
+Note that each {agent} reads concurrently from each of the partitions it has been assigned. 
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 [[kafka-hosts]]
 ===== `hosts`