Decodes Apache Avro binary format into events.

Avro Decoder

Decodes Apache Avro binary format into Arrow RecordBatches.

Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`codec`	`string`	yes	—	Must be `"avro"`
`max_size`	`integer`	no	`10485760`	Maximum message size in bytes (10MB default)

Example

sources:
  my_kafka:
    type: kafka
    bootstrap_servers: localhost:9092
    group_id: my-group
    topics: [avro-events]
    decoding:
      codec: avro

When to Use

Schema registry integration - Confluent Schema Registry
Compact binary ingestion - Smaller than JSON
Hadoop ecosystem - Hive, Spark data sources