This plugins allows to define a distributed stream of events published by Gerrit.
Events can be anything, from the traditional stream events to the Gerrit metrics.
This plugin requires Gerrit 2.13 or laster.
linux
java-1.8
Buck
Clone or link this plugin to the plugins directory of Gerrit's source tree, and issue the command:
buck build plugins/kafka-events
The output is created in
buck-out/gen/plugins/kafka-events/kafka-events.jar
Assuming a running Kafka broker on the same Gerrit host, add the following settings to gerrit.config:
[plugin "kafka-events"] bootstrapServers = localhost:9092