This document discusses using Fluentd to collect streaming data from Apache Kafka. It presents two approaches: 1) the fluent-plugin-kafka plugin which allows Fluentd to act as a producer and consumer of Kafka topics, and 2) the kafka-fluentd-consumer project which runs a standalone Kafka consumer that sends events to Fluentd. Configuration examples are provided for both approaches. The document co
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