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Support's Guide to the message bus probe with the KAFKA transport

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Question

Are there any configuration best practices for the message bus probe with the KAFKA transport?

Cause

The support's guide to the message bus integration deals with basic configuration for multiple transports.

Answer

There's a Support's Guide to the message bus probe with the KAFKA transport provided here to assist with the various configurations of the probe with the KAFKA transport.
 
The general property settings are given here.
 
# Best practice
NetworkTimeout                   : 15
PollServer                       : 60
# Buffering
# 20 events per second
Buffering                        : 1
BufferSize                       : 200
FlushBufferInterval              : 9
# Performance tuning
MaxEventQueueSize                : 50000
TransportQueueSize               : 50000
# Heartbeating
HeartbeatInterval                : 60
ProbeWatchHeartbeatInterval      : 60
# Disable pid file for nco_pad
DisablePidFileLock               : 'true'
 
 
 

Support's Guide to the message bus probe with the KAFKA transport.
 

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Modified date:
14 November 2025

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