The APMIA Kafka monitoring extension supports either SASL/PLAIN or SSL connections, but not both. Company standard is SASL over SSL.
These are the current properties for the extension, documented here:
properties for enabling SASL/PLAIN for the Kafka monitoring extension:
introscope.agent.kafka.broker.sasl.plain.enabled
introscope.agent.kafka.broker.sasl.plain.username
introscope.agent.kafka.broker.sasl.plain.password
SSL properties:
introscope.agent.kafka.broker.ssl.enabled
Customer tried setting both introscope.agent.kafka.broker.ssl.enabled and introscope.agent.kafka.broker.sasl.plain.enabled to true and the extension would not connect to Kafka.
Released In SAAS. See Kafka Monitoring Properties