[PaoloBarbolini]

According to the documentation[1] Kafka is just one of the supported inputs for ingestion, so it should be possible to run Quickwit without it if you're not intending to write logs into Kafka. Jaeger also seems like another optional dependency. Same also probably for Zookeeper?

1: https://quickwit.io/docs/ingest-data/kafka

[fulmicoton]

Zookeeper is not used by Quickwit at all. It is used by Kafka however.

[mdaniel]

I continue to see that dependency almost everywhere I see Kafka used, and yet KIP-500 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A...> and its Jira <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9119> are shown as "Resolved Apr-2021" allegedly in 2.8.0

I wonder if it's going to be the "python2.7" (or I guess more relevant "Java8") of running Kafka :-(