Welcome to Kafkabeat. Kafkabeat is a beat that allows you to read data from kafka and index the results into elasticsearch.
Ensure that this folder is at the following location:
${GOPATH}/github.com/dearcode
- Golang 1.7
To get running with Kafkabeat and also install the dependencies, run the following command:
make setup
It will create a clean git history for each major step. Note that you can always rewrite the history if you wish before pushing your changes.
To push Kafkabeat in the git repository, run the following commands:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/dearcode/kafkabeat
git push origin master
For further development, check out the beat developer guide.
To build the binary for Kafkabeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name kafkabeat.
make
To run Kafkabeat with debugging output enabled, run:
./kafkabeat -c kafkabeat.yml -e -d "*"
kafkabeat:
# brokers kafka brokers.
brokers: "localhost:9092"
# topics kafka topics.
topics: "topic1,topic2"
# group kafka consumer group.
group: "kafkabeat"
To test Kafkabeat, run the following command:
make testsuite
alternatively:
make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report
The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/
Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields
which is automatically generated based on etc/fields.yml.
To generate etc/kafkabeat.template.json and etc/kafkabeat.asciidoc
make update
To clean Kafkabeat source code, run the following commands:
make fmt
make simplify
To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:
make clean
To clone Kafkabeat from the git repository, run the following commands:
mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/dearcode
cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/dearcode
git clone https://github.com/dearcode/kafkabeat
For further development, check out the beat developer guide.
The beat frameworks provides tools to crosscompile and package your beat for different platforms. This requires docker and vendoring as described above. To build packages of your beat, run the following command:
make package
This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The hole process to finish can take several minutes.