Add Kafka receiver and exporter to core components (#10988)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wert <[email protected]>

Author: AlexanderWert

changelog/fragments/1763973037-otel-kafka-components-to-core.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Kind can be one of:
+# - breaking-change: a change to previously-documented behavior
+# - deprecation: functionality that is being removed in a later release
+# - bug-fix: fixes a problem in a previous version
+# - enhancement: extends functionality but does not break or fix existing behavior
+# - feature: new functionality
+# - known-issue: problems that we are aware of in a given version
+# - security: impacts on the security of a product or a user’s deployment.
+# - upgrade: important information for someone upgrading from a prior version
+# - other: does not fit into any of the other categories
+kind: other
+
+# Change summary; a 80ish characters long description of the change.
+summary: Promote Kafka receiver and exporter components to core / supported EDOT Collector components.
+
+# Long description; in case the summary is not enough to describe the change
+# this field accommodate a description without length limits.
+# NOTE: This field will be rendered only for breaking-change and known-issue kinds at the moment.
+#description:
+
+# Affected component; usually one of "elastic-agent", "fleet-server", "filebeat", "metricbeat", "auditbeat", "all", etc.
+component: elastic-agent
+
+# PR URL; optional; the PR number that added the changeset.
+# If not present is automatically filled by the tooling finding the PR where this changelog fragment has been added.
+# NOTE: the tooling supports backports, so it's able to fill the original PR number instead of the backport PR number.
+# Please provide it if you are adding a fragment for a different PR.
+pr: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/10988
+
+# Issue URL; optional; the GitHub issue related to this changeset (either closes or is part of).
+# If not present is automatically filled by the tooling with the issue linked to the PR number.
+#issue: https://github.com/owner/repo/1234

internal/pkg/otel/components.yml

@@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ core_components:
   - hostmetricsreceiver
   - k8sclusterreceiver
   - k8sobjectsreceiver
+  - kafkareceiver
   - kubeletstatsreceiver
   - otlpreceiver
 
 # Exporters
   - elasticsearchexporter
+  - kafkaexporter
   - otlpexporter
   - otlphttpexporter
 
@@ -104,4 +106,14 @@ annotations:
 #  elasticsearchexporter:
 #    comment: |
 #      Some Elasticsearch modes, such as `raw`, are not covered by Elastic Support.
-
+  kafkareceiver:
+    comment: |
+      The following features and configuration options are **NOT** officially supported in the EDOT Collector with the Kafka receiver:
+      - Encoding options other than `otlp_proto` or `otlp_json`
+      - Using the Sarama client (i.e. opting out of the `exporter.kafkaexporter.UseFranzGo` feature gate is not supported)
+  kafkaexporter:
+    comment: |
+      The following features and configuration options are **NOT** officially supported in the EDOT Collector with the Kafka receiver:
+      - Encoding options other than `otlp_proto` or `otlp_json`
+      - Using the Sarama client (i.e. opting out of the `exporter.kafkaexporter.UseFranzGo` feature gate is not supported)
+      - Partitioning configuration (i.e. `partition_*` options).