Kafka: Gerrit event producer for Apache Kafka

• Author: GerritForge
• Repository: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/kafka
• CI/Release: https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com/search/?q=kafka

Synopsis

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.

Environments

• linux
• java-1.8
• Buck

Build

Clone or link this plugin to the plugins directory of Gerrit's source tree, and issue the command:

buck build plugins/kafka

The output is created in

buck-out/gen/plugins/kafka/kafka.jar

Minimum Configuration

Assuming a running Kafka broker on the same Gerrit host, add the following settings to gerrit.config:

  [plugin "kafka"]
    server = localhost:9092
    topic = gerrit-events