To send failed records to adead letter queue (DLQ), you must configure:
* errors.tolerance=all: Tells the connector tonot failon errors but handle them (e.g., send to DLQ).
* errors.deadletterqueue.topic.name=DLQ-Topic: Specifies the DLQ topic.
* errors.deadletterqueue.context.headers.enable=true: Includes error context in message headers.
FromKafka Connect Error Handling Docs:
"Kafka Connect supports directing problematic records to a separate topic (DLQ) using errors.* configs.
Headers can include failure metadata."
Options D, E, F are related tologging, not DLQ behavior.
Reference:Kafka Connect Configurations > Error Handling

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.
Reference:Kafka Connect User Guide > Deployment Modes

ForSASL/PLAIN authentication over SSL, the correct combination is:
* security.protocol=SASL_SSL
* sasl.jaas.config=...PlainLoginModule required username=... password=...
FromKafka Security Documentation:
"For SASL/PLAIN over SSL, configure security.protocol=SASL_SSL and provide login module configuration using sasl.jaas.config." Options B and D are incorrect because they do not pair the correct protocol with the authentication method.
Reference:Apache Kafka Security Configs > SASL_SSL, PLAIN mechanism

Consumers do not directly write to the __consumer_offsets topic, they instead interact with a broker that has been elected to manage that topic, which is the Group Coordinator broker

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