Following up on the KIP discussion thread. I’d like to drive this toward a decision over the next few days. In particular, feedback on the proposed changes would be helpful.
If there are no blocking concerns by , I’ll proceed with the current proposal and start implementation planning. KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/EZImGQ Thanks, Sruthi On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM Sruthi Sathyamoorthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > This email starts the discussion thread for *KIP-1337: Add Protobuf > MessageFormatter for Kafka Console Consumer*. > > The proposal aims to improve the local debugging and observability > experience for Kafka users working with protobuf-serialized messages > without Schema Registry integration. Currently, protobuf payloads consumed > through kafka-console-consumer.sh are not human-readable, often requiring > custom deserialization scripts during development and troubleshooting. > > This KIP proposes adding a new ProtobufMessageFormatter implementation to > Kafka’s existing formatter framework, enabling protobuf decoding using > locally provided .proto definitions through the console consumer. > KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/EZImGQ > Thanks, Sruthi >
