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Kafka backend listener

JMeter plugin by rahulsinghai

Listeners
v1.0.0
1 release
Repository

Active installs

1,362

-2.2%

Change this week

-31

from 1,393 last week

Weekly peak

2,106

week of Mar 17, 2025

Releases

1

Latest v1.0.0

About this plugin

Apache JMeter plugin for sending sample results to a Kafka server.
  • Simply add a "Backend Listener" and change the implementation
  • Change the listener's configuration
  • To use filters, simply separate their name by a semicolon. (f1;f2;f3)

Common questions

How do I install Kafka backend listener in JMeter?

Open JMeter's Plugins Manager (Options > Plugins Manager), find "Kafka backend listener" on the Available Plugins tab and click Apply Changes and Restart JMeter. From the command line, run "./PluginsManagerCMD.sh install jmeter.backendlistener.kafka" (or "PluginsManagerCMD.bat install jmeter.backendlistener.kafka" on Windows) in your JMeter bin directory. The plugin ID is jmeter.backendlistener.kafka.

What is the latest version of Kafka backend listener?

The latest version in the official JMeter Plugins repository is 1.0.0, out of 1 published release.

Who develops Kafka backend listener?

Kafka backend listener is published by rahulsinghai; documentation and source are at https://github.com/rahulsinghai/jmeter-backend-listener-kafka/issues.

How popular is Kafka backend listener?

It had 1,362 monthly active installations in the week of 2026-10-26, according to the usage statistics jmeter-plugins.org collects from the Plugins Manager (down 31 on the previous week).

Usage history

Weekly samples of monthly active installations

1,811 active installations in the week of Nov 3, 2025, 1,362 in the week of Oct 26, 2026.05001,0001,5002,000Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26

Weekly install intensity

383 weeks of data
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Source: jmeter-plugins.org usage statistics : monthly active installations reported by the Plugins Manager. Download counts aren't published by the repository.

Version adoption

91% of 4,398 reporting installations run the latest release, v1.0.0.

  • 1.0.0

    latest

    3,984 · 91%

  • 1.0.1

    382 · 8.7%custom

  • 1.0.2-SNAPSHOT

    18 · 0.4%custom

  • 1.0.4

    8 · 0.2%custom

  • 0.0.0-STOCK

    2 · 0.0%custom

  • 1.0.2

    2 · 0.0%custom

  • 2 other versions

    2 · 0.0%

Source: jmeter-plugins.org version statistics. Versions not published in the repository are custom or renamed builds reported by their installations.

Release history (1)

  1. v1.0.0

    Latest
    JAR
    Initial version.

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Install

$./PluginsManagerCMD.sh install jmeter.backendlistener.kafka
Run from your JMeter bin directory, then restart JMeter.

Details

Plugin ID
jmeter.backendlistener.kafka
Vendor
rahulsinghai
Category
Listeners
Latest version
v1.0.0
Documentation

Component classes (1)

  • io.github.rahulsinghai.jmeter.backendlistener.kafka.KafkaBackendClient

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