[jira] [Created] (METRON-883) Capture Bro Plugin Enhancements from bro/bro-plugins

["Nick Allen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Nick Allen created METRON-883:
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             Summary: Capture Bro Plugin Enhancements from bro/bro-plugins
                 Key: METRON-883
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-883
             Project: Metron
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Nick Allen
            Assignee: Nick Allen


There are two versions of the Bro Kafka Plugin.  I authored both of these and contributed one to Metron and the other to Bro itself.  The original goal of doing this was to eventually deprecate the version maintained in Metron, so that the wider community of Bro could use and support the plugin.

Since this time, Bro has created a plugin management mechanism and is no longer wanting to host plugins.  They are asking individual maintainers to create their own Github repositories to maintain these plugins.  This will require us to continue to support the Bro Kafka Plugin in Metron.

Additional enhancements have been made to the version in bro/bro-plugins, which I would like to contribute back to Metron proper, since that is now the version that will live on.

The enhancements address a potential thread-safety issue and also allows data from Bro to be directed to separate Kafka topics.



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