Kafka¶
This page documents a legacy sink in Robusta classic
For new setups, we recommend HolmesGPT instead.
HolmesGPT triages your alerts instead of just forwarding them. Sinks are deterministic: they send every notification, unchanged, to a fixed destination, leaving you to read and prioritize each one yourself.
HolmesGPT instead uses AI to investigate each alert, surface the likely root cause, and escalate only what needs attention — so you get fewer, more actionable notifications. Set this up with Alerts Triage for alerts, or Triggered Workflows for custom events.
Robusta can report issues and events in your Kubernetes cluster to a Kafka topic.
Configuring the Kafka sink¶
Add this to your generated_values.yaml
sinksConfig:
- kafka_sink:
name: kafka_sink
kafka_url: "localhost:9092"
topic: "robusta-playbooks"
Add this to your generated_values.yaml if configuring with authentication
sinksConfig:
- kafka_sink:
name: kafka_sink
kafka_url: "localhost:9096"
topic: "robusta-playbooks"
auth:
sasl_mechanism: SCRAM-SHA-512
security_protocol: SASL_SSL
sasl_plain_username: robusta
sasl_plain_password: password
Save the file and run
helm upgrade robusta robusta/robusta --values=generated_values.yaml
Example Output:
