kafka-fwd

README

kafka-fwd

Standalone message forwarding tool for Apache Kafka. Build in Go, leverages Confluent client for Apache Kafka

Major use case behind kafka-fwd is [failed] message reprocessing.

Features

• Forward messages from src to dest topic
  • Forward continuously
  • Support multiple routes
• Ensure fixed delay before forwarding
  • E.g. forward if 1min 30sec elapsed since original message timestamp
• Respect source messages
  • Don't skip, at the cost of potential duplicates and out-of-order delivery
• Provide reasonable performance and scalability
  • Batching, consumer groups, configurability: don't stand in the way of Confluent client & libkafkard
  • Scalable delay: limit in-flight messages and pause/resume partitions as needed

Download and Install

• Download Linux or macOS (darwin) distribution
• Unpack and modify sample kfwd-conf.yaml to your liking
• Run kafka-fwd

External Restart

kafka-fwd may panic and terminate if unable to guarantee a lossless delivery of forwarded messages. It is safe to restart then. Currently, kafka-fwd expects to be restarted externally, e.g. with docker restart policy.

Build from Sources

• Clone the repo
• Run go build with go 1.18 or later

License

MIT License