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Update kafka docs - #15882

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  • I have reviewed tips for building integrations and this pull request is aligned with them.
  • I have verified that all data streams collect metrics or logs.
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@stefans-elastic stefans-elastic added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. Applied to PRs that modify *.md files. label Nov 6, 2025
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@stefans-elastic stefans-elastic added enhancement New feature or request Team:Obs-InfraObs Observability Infrastructure Monitoring team [elastic/obs-infraobs-integrations] labels Nov 6, 2025
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🚀 Benchmarks report

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The `log` dataset is tested with logs from Kafka 0.9, 1.1.0 and 2.0.0.

The `broker`, `consumergroup`, `partition` datastreams are tested with Kafka 0.10.2.1, 1.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.2 and 3.6.0.
The `broker`, `consumergroup`, `partition` datastreams are tested with Kafka 0.10.2.1, 1.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.2 ,3.6.0, 4.0.0. If you are on any earlier 9.1.x release, you must upgrade to 9.1.3 for Kafka 4.0.0 support.

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Did you mean that Kafka 4 support is available in elastic-agent and/or beats starting 9.1.3? So, it is added to 9.2 and was backported to 9.1?

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Kafka 4 support is available since 9.1.3

conditions:
kibana:
version: "^8.13.0 || ^9.0.0"
version: "^8.19.6 || ^9.0.6"

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What was backported to these versions?

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Hmm, the customers will still be able to see 1.25.1 of the package on old stacks

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I think so
but I don't think it is a problem since it should still work for them (as long as they don't use Kafka 4)

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LGTM!

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stefans-elastic merged commit 58b5804 into elastic:main Nov 7, 2025
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Package kafka - 1.26.0 containing this change is available at https://epr.elastic.co/package/kafka/1.26.0/

tehbooom pushed a commit to tehbooom/integrations that referenced this pull request Nov 19, 2025
* update kafka docs

* update PR id in changelog

* docs fix
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documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. Applied to PRs that modify *.md files. enhancement New feature or request Integration:kafka Kafka Team:Obs-InfraObs Observability Infrastructure Monitoring team [elastic/obs-infraobs-integrations]

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