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Now that we have the sensor set up and generating logs we need to figure out how to pipe these logs to a Kafka topic. To do so the first thing we need to do is setup a new Kafka topic for Squid.
cd /usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/kafka/bin/
./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --topic squid --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1
./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list
The following commands will setup a new Kafka topic for squid. Now let's test how we can pipe the Squid logs to Kakfka