monitoring - support multiple kafka topics as inputs in telegraf

Question

i have telegraf config which has inputs as below which is supporting 1 kafka topic as input is it possible/recommended to add multiple topics in inputs

current >>
[[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
   brokers = ["<kafka endpoint>"]
   topics = ["topic1"]
   max_message_len = 100000
   data_format = "json"

expected >>

[[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
   brokers = ["<kafka endpoint>"]
   topics = ["topic1", "topic2"]
   max_message_len = 100000
   data_format = "json"

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible to consume from a few topics.
A recommendation will depend on your use case, for example, if you want to use a different consumer group for each one of them.