waiting for some confirmation that this works

I'm really interested in this feature. any plans to merge?

Absolutely. I'd love it if you could try it out and provide feedback.

You can grab the build at one of these to try it out
[removed] -- see latest post for latest build

Hello @ssoroka

Installed telegraf-1.17.0%7Ef45cc9e1-0.x86_64.rpm.

Here the snippet of kafka output section:

[[outputs.kafka]]
  brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
  topic = "metrics"
  sasl_username = "telegraf"
  sasl_password = "telegraf"
  sasl_mechanism = "SCRAM-SHA-512"
  routing_tag = "host"
  client_id = "Telegraf"

Telegraf doesn't start. Seems that sasl_mechanism is not recognised.

[root@server user]# telegraf --test
2020-10-27T16:40:55Z I! Starting Telegraf 
2020-10-27T16:40:55Z I! Using config file: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
2020-10-27T16:40:55Z E! [telegraf] Error running agent: Error loading config file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf: Error parsing kafka array, line 20: field corresponding to `sasl_mechanism' is not defined in kafka.Kafka

k, I'll investigate and respond shortly

so I had only added it for the inputs.kafka_consumer, but I'm adding it now to the outputs.kafka.. but I realize I also missed a bunch of stuff. will add this shortly.

@luisgf
Here's the updated packages for you to test.
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.aarch64.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.armel.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.armv6hl.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.i386.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.s390x.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0.x86_64.rpm
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_freebsd_i386.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_arm64.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_armel.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_armhf.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_i386.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_mips.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_mipsel.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_linux_s390x.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_static_linux_amd64.tar.gz
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_windows_amd64.zip
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf-1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3_windows_i386.zip
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_amd64.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_arm64.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_armel.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_armhf.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_i386.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_mips.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_mipsel.deb
https://67924-33258973-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/dist/telegraf_1.17.0%7Eb02f2cc3-0_s390x.deb

Hello @ssoroka works! I'm connected to my kafka brokers using SCRAM-SHA-512 authentication.

@ssoroka: Thanks a lot for all about SCRAM.

Linked to:

• State of Play scram-sasl/info#1

GSSAPI is still listed as experimental? Why is that the case?