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Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[FEATURE] notify: Add an Apache Kafka receiver using the webhook v4 JSON message format.

Signed-off-by: cshorvath <cshorvath@ultinous.com>
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@ultinous-cshorvath ultinous-cshorvath changed the title Kafka receiver notify: add Kafka receiver Jul 29, 2026
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Added Apache Kafka notification support with configuration, validation, receiver wiring, webhook v4 publishing, metrics, documentation, and tests. Receiver integrations now close during failed construction, reload, and shutdown.

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Kafka receiver

Layer / File(s) Summary
Kafka notifier and configuration
notify/kafka/*, notify/kafka/*_test.go
Adds Kafka configuration parsing and validation. The notifier publishes grouped alerts as webhook v4 JSON records keyed by group key. Tests cover parsing, validation, publishing, errors, and shutdown.
Receiver configuration and wiring
config/config.go, config/config_test.go, config/receiver/*, notify/metrics.go, docs/configuration.md, docs/integrations.md, kafka/kafka.go
Adds Receiver.KafkaConfigs, Kafka receiver construction, Kafka metrics registration, configuration documentation, and integration references. Updates credential fallback behavior and notifier configuration types.
Integration resource cleanup
notify/notify.go, notify/integration_close_test.go, app/reloader.go, app/reloader_test.go, config/receiver/receiver.go
Adds integration close methods and aggregated cleanup errors. Reload and shutdown paths close tracked integrations, including integrations created before setup failures. Tests verify close behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1e1ef

The PR adds Kafka notifications, but an in-progress configuration reload may outlive shutdown cleanup and leave a Kafka client active beyond the intended application lifecycle; the new receiver field types may also break existing Go integrations. These bounded lifecycle and API-compatibility risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Alertmanager
  participant KafkaNotifier
  participant KafkaProducer
  participant KafkaBroker
  Alertmanager->>KafkaNotifier: Send grouped alerts
  KafkaNotifier->>KafkaNotifier: Render webhook v4 JSON
  KafkaNotifier->>KafkaProducer: ProduceSync with topic and group key
  KafkaProducer->>KafkaBroker: Publish record
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding a Kafka receiver.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete. It identifies issue #1996, marks the receiver as a new feature, records tests and documentation, confirms compatibility, includes sign-off, and provides a release note.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request satisfies issue #1996 by adding Kafka notification configuration, receiver construction, message publishing, validation, tests, and documentation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The additional integration lifecycle cleanup and configuration updates support safe Kafka notifier construction, reload, and shutdown. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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notify/kafka/config.go (1)

45-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap propagated Kafka errors with operation context.

Direct error returns make YAML parsing and producer construction failures harder to locate. Wrap each propagated error with fmt.Errorf("kafka: <operation>: %w", err).

  • notify/kafka/config.go#L45-L53: wrap YAML unmarshal and client-option validation errors.
  • notify/kafka/kafka.go#L46-L55: wrap configuration validation and producer-option construction errors.

As per coding guidelines, “Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) and check with errors.Is/errors.As in Go code.”

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In `@notify/kafka/config.go` around lines 45 - 53, Wrap the propagated errors in
Config unmarshalling and validate using fmt.Errorf with “kafka: <operation>: %w”
context, covering both sites: notify/kafka/config.go lines 45-53 for YAML
unmarshal and client-option validation, and notify/kafka/kafka.go lines 46-55
for configuration validation and producer-option construction. Preserve error
unwrapping so callers can continue using errors.Is and errors.As.

Source: Coding guidelines

app/reloader.go (1)

127-130: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add receiver context to the joined error.

A receiver build failure is returned without the receiver name. Wrap err before joining it with cleanup errors.

As per coding guidelines, “Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) and check with errors.Is/errors.As in Go code.”

Proposed fix
-			return errors.Join(err, notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations))
+			return errors.Join(
+				fmt.Errorf("build receiver %q: %w", rcv.Name, err),
+				notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations),
+			)
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@app/reloader.go` around lines 127 - 130, Update the receiver build error
handling around BuildReceiverIntegrations to wrap err with receiver context
using fmt.Errorf and %w before joining it with
notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations), including the receiver name in the
message while preserving errors.Is/errors.As unwrapping.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 2039-2042: Update both occurrences of the producer acknowledgement
documentation in docs/configuration.md to remove the claim that acks: "all"
enables idempotent writes. Keep the description focused on waiting for all
in-sync replicas, while preserving the existing acknowledgement-level behavior
and syntax.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@app/reloader.go`:
- Around line 127-130: Update the receiver build error handling around
BuildReceiverIntegrations to wrap err with receiver context using fmt.Errorf and
%w before joining it with notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations), including the
receiver name in the message while preserving errors.Is/errors.As unwrapping.

In `@notify/kafka/config.go`:
- Around line 45-53: Wrap the propagated errors in Config unmarshalling and
validate using fmt.Errorf with “kafka: <operation>: %w” context, covering both
sites: notify/kafka/config.go lines 45-53 for YAML unmarshal and client-option
validation, and notify/kafka/kafka.go lines 46-55 for configuration validation
and producer-option construction. Preserve error unwrapping so callers can
continue using errors.Is and errors.As.
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Comment thread docs/configuration.md
@siavashs siavashs self-assigned this Aug 6, 2026
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config/config.go (1)

1005-1005: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add compatibility aliases for the moved configuration types.

config.PushoverConfig, config.SNSConfig, and config.RocketchatConfig were exported named types in config/notifiers.go and are now absent. Existing callers that assign []*config.*Config to these receiver fields will not compile. Add aliases in config or an equivalent compatibility layer before merging.

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In `@config/config.go` at line 1005, Add compatibility aliases in the config
package for the moved exported types PushoverConfig, SNSConfig, and
RocketchatConfig, pointing each to its corresponding notifier package type.
Preserve assignability for existing callers using []*config.*Config with fields
such as PushoverConfigs, without changing the receiver field definitions.
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In `@config/config.go`:
- Line 1005: Add compatibility aliases in the config package for the moved
exported types PushoverConfig, SNSConfig, and RocketchatConfig, pointing each to
its corresponding notifier package type. Preserve assignability for existing
callers using []*config.*Config with fields such as PushoverConfigs, without
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Comment thread app/reloader.go
if err := notify.CloseIntegrations(r.integrations); err != nil {
configLogger.Warn("failed to close receiver integrations", "err", err)
}
r.integrations = nil

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Can you elaborate why we need to add this generic CloseIntegration() mechanism?
I assume it is added to make sure all kafka messages are delivered, but this is not a good idea!
The Kafka notifier's Close() is synchronous and unbounded, it can block indefinitely if the broker is unreachable or slow.
franz-go's own docs recommend Flush(ctx) with a bounded context before Close() for exactly this reason.

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