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The Kafka Parser Bolt is an extensible bolt that can take two types of parsers: GROK and purpose-built Java.  It is our strong preference to build up as much coverage as we can using the Grok parsers, as they require no coding.  However, the drawback of the Grok parsers is that they are much slower than Java parsers and sometimes the telemetry is so complex that writing a Grok statement for it is not feasible.  See our list of supported devices for which parser type supports a particular device.

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