From e2d044fb2720c570d2e5660c5a84dc6e98c5b757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "telegraf-tiger[bot]"
 <76974415+telegraf-tiger[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:07:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update etc/telegraf.conf and etc/telegraf_windows.conf
 (#12205)

---
 etc/telegraf.conf         | 4 ++++
 etc/telegraf_windows.conf | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/telegraf.conf b/etc/telegraf.conf
index 16b16c5a1..5a7db1ba5 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
@@ -1193,7 +1193,11 @@
 # # Configuration for the Kafka server to send metrics to
 # [[outputs.kafka]]
 #   ## URLs of kafka brokers
+#   ## The brokers listed here are used to connect to collect metadata about a
+#   ## cluster. However, once the initial metadata collect is completed, telegraf
+#   ## will communicate solely with the kafka leader and not all defined brokers.
 #   brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
+#
 #   ## Kafka topic for producer messages
 #   topic = "telegraf"
 #
diff --git a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
index dbfd83218..d834c8fbf 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
@@ -1193,7 +1193,11 @@
 # # Configuration for the Kafka server to send metrics to
 # [[outputs.kafka]]
 #   ## URLs of kafka brokers
+#   ## The brokers listed here are used to connect to collect metadata about a
+#   ## cluster. However, once the initial metadata collect is completed, telegraf
+#   ## will communicate solely with the kafka leader and not all defined brokers.
 #   brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
+#
 #   ## Kafka topic for producer messages
 #   topic = "telegraf"
 #