Package sarama is a pure Go client library for dealing with Apache Kafka (versions 0.8 and later). It includes a high-level API for easily producing and consuming messages, and a low-level API for controlling bytes on the wire when the high-level API is insufficient. Usage examples for the high-level APIs are provided inline with their full documentation. To produce messages, use either the AsyncProducer or the SyncProducer. The AsyncProducer accepts messages on a channel and produces them asynchronously in the background as efficiently as possible; it is preferred in most cases. The SyncProducer provides a method which will block until Kafka acknowledges the message as produced. This can be useful but comes with two caveats: it will generally be less efficient, and the actual durability guarantees depend on the configured value of `Producer.RequiredAcks`. There are configurations where a message acknowledged by the SyncProducer can still sometimes be lost. To consume messages, use Consumer or Consumer-Group API. For lower-level needs, the Broker and Request/Response objects permit precise control over each connection and message sent on the wire; the Client provides higher-level metadata management that is shared between the producers and the consumer. The Request/Response objects and properties are mostly undocumented, as they line up exactly with the protocol fields documented by Kafka at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol Metrics are exposed through https://github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics library in a local registry. Broker related metrics: Note that we do not gather specific metrics for seed brokers but they are part of the "all brokers" metrics. Producer related metrics: Consumer related metrics: