Kafka Consume

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.