You need to collect logs from a host and write them to a Kafka topic...

Kafka Connect can run instandalone modeordistributed mode. For simple tasks likereading logs from a file on a single host,standalone modeis recommended.

FromKafka Connect User Guide:

“Standalone mode is useful when running connectors on a single machine (e.g., for development or simple deployments like log collection from a local file).”

Distributed mode is preferred for scalability and fault tolerance but overkill for this use case.