Kafka Consume

Release date 2025/10/01

Breaking Change

• Added typedefs.no_service to the kafka-consume plugin to prevent binding to a service, as it does not proxy to one. Note that this is a breaking change. If you previously attached a kafka-consume plugin to a service, it will no longer take effect. In such cases, requests will instead be proxied to the upstream configured in the service.

Release date 2025/07/03

Feature

• Added WebSocket support to the kafka-consume plugin for consuming Kafka messages.

Release date 2025/10/10

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where the plugin would fail to connect using mTLS.

Release date 2025/03/27

Feature

• Added the kafka-consume plugin, which adds Kafka consumption capabilities to Kong.

Known Issues

• Kong Gateway allows you to configure the Kafka Consume plugin without authentication settings, but authentication must be configured for the plugin to work.

  If authentication is not configured, or if the authentication strategy is missing, the plugin will fail with a generic authentication error.

• An error message appears in the logs about a missing cluster name, even when the name is specified.