Github user justinleet commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1099#discussion_r202761519 --- Diff: metron-platform/metron-parsers/README.md --- @@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ topology in kafka. Errors are collected with the context of the error (e.g. stacktrace) and original message causing the error and sent to an `error` queue. Invalid messages as determined by global validation functions are also treated as errors and sent to an `error` queue. + +Multiple sensors can be aggregated into a single Storm topology. When this is done, there will be +multiple Kafka spouts, but only a single parser bolt which will handle delegating to the correct --- End diff -- Correct, it's aggregating existing topics / sensors into a single topology (with multiple spouts). It's pulling from each individual topic/sensor as a spout, and then passing to a single parser bolt which handles parsing and output as needed.
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