From 6d5c72cba62d395dc2b7ef48613370f6d914ad41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kilfoyle <41695641+kilfoyle@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:05:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about scaling Elastic Agent with Kafka input (#41282) * Add note about scaling Elastic Agent with Kafka input * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie * Update filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie --------- Co-authored-by: Craig MacKenzie (cherry picked from commit d2e6603d82fb044394271fb45fee564aa7dfc4e1) --- filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc index 96836a63a38..ee0cd7842a4 100644 --- a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc +++ b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-kafka.asciidoc @@ -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. + [float] [[kafka-hosts]] ===== `hosts`