}
	return nil
}

// Name returns the name of the target
func (h *Target) Name() string {
	return "minio-kafka-audit"
}

// Endpoint - return kafka target
func (h *Target) Endpoint() string {
	return "kafka"
}

// String - kafka string
func (h *Target) String() string {
	return "kafka"
}

// Stats returns the target statistics.
func (h *Target) Stats() types.TargetStats {
	h.logChMu.RLock()

}

// send - sends an event to the kafka.
func (target *KafkaTarget) send(eventData event.Event) error {
	if target.producer == nil {
		return store.ErrNotConnected
	}
	msg, err := target.toProducerMessage(eventData)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	_, _, err = target.producer.SendMessage(msg)
	return err
}

// sendMultiple sends multiple messages to the kafka.

  },
  "accessKey": "minioadmin"
}
```

### Kafka Target

Assuming that you already have Apache Kafka configured and running.

```
mc admin config set myminio/ audit_kafka
KEY:
audit_kafka[:name]  send audit logs to kafka endpoints

ARGS:
brokers*         (csv)       comma separated list of Kafka broker addresses
topic            (string)    Kafka topic used for bucket notifications

```

## Publish MinIO events via Kafka

Install Apache Kafka from [here](http://kafka.apache.org/).

### Step 1: Ensure minimum requirements are met

MinIO requires Kafka version 0.10 or 0.9. Internally MinIO uses the [Shopify/sarama](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/) library and so has the same version compatibility as provided by this library.

### Step 2: Add Kafka endpoint to MinIO

type Config struct {
	AMQP          map[string]target.AMQPArgs          `json:"amqp"`
	Elasticsearch map[string]target.ElasticsearchArgs `json:"elasticsearch"`
	Kafka         map[string]target.KafkaArgs         `json:"kafka"`
	MQTT          map[string]target.MQTTArgs          `json:"mqtt"`
	MySQL         map[string]target.MySQLArgs         `json:"mysql"`
	NATS          map[string]target.NATSArgs          `json:"nats"`

		},
	}

	HelpKafka = config.HelpKVS{
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         KafkaBrokers,
			Description: "comma separated list of Kafka broker addresses",
			Type:        "csv",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         KafkaTopic,
			Description: "Kafka topic used for bucket notifications",
			Optional:    true,
			Type:        "string",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         KafkaSASLUsername,

		},
	}

	HelpKafka = config.HelpKVS{
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         target.KafkaBrokers,
			Description: "comma separated list of Kafka broker addresses",
			Type:        "csv",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         target.KafkaTopic,
			Description: "Kafka topic used for bucket notifications",
			Optional:    true,
			Type:        "string",
		},
		config.HelpKV{

			consoleTgt = t
		}
	}

	systemTargets.add(t)
	return nil
}

func initKafkaTargets(ctx context.Context, cfgMap map[string]kafka.Config) ([]Target, []error) {
	tgts := []Target{}
	errs := []error{}
	for _, l := range cfgMap {
		if l.Enabled {
			t := kafka.New(l)
			tgts = append(tgts, t)

			e := t.Init(ctx)
			if e != nil {
				errs = append(errs, e)
			}
		}
	}

// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package loggertypes

// TargetType indicates type of the target e.g. console, http, kafka
type TargetType uint8

//go:generate stringer -type=TargetType -trimprefix=Target $GOFILE

// Constants for target types
const (
	_ TargetType = iota
	TargetConsole
	TargetHTTP
	TargetKafka
)

// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package kafka

import (
	"crypto/sha512"
	"strings"

	"github.com/IBM/sarama"
	"github.com/xdg/scram"

	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/hash/sha256"
)

func initScramClient(cfg Config, config *sarama.Config) {