title: How can I send performance data from NetApp Harvest to Kafka instead of Graphite server?
body: <p>I am using NetApp Harvest to pull performance and usage data from my NetApp storage systems. (<a href="https://github.com/szukalski/docker-netapp-harvest" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/szukalski/docker-netapp-harvest</a>). 
  NetApp Harvest configuration has a section as follows:
  graphite_server   = INSERT_IP_OR_HOSTNAME_OF_GRAPHITE_SERVER_HERE</p>
  
  <p>However, I want to be able to send the data to Kafka first and then from there to InfluxDB (InfluxDB has compatibility for Graphite). </p>
  
  <p>Can someone please guide me as to how can I accomplish this?</p>
  
  <p>A little background on NetApp Harvest: NetApp Harvest is software that connects to a remote host, collects data, calculates and summarizes the data, and posts it to a metrics server. It offers default collection templates for performance information from ONTAP and Data ONTAP 7-mode every 1 minute, and storage capacity information from OnCommand Unified Manager 6+ every 15 minutes. (From their documentation). </p>
  
  <p>I am not sure how to be able to send the data to Kafka? Should I just place the Kafka IP into the graphite_server field?</p>