Can ranger logs be written to Kafka topic?

[#1]

@gm Sure they can.  For example: this is a simple use case for nifi to tail a log file and send the results to a Kafka topic.

There are many other ways to do this without nifi too.

[#2]

How to set up Ranger logs to branch off to Kafka topic(s)?

[#3]

You'll need to create a Kafka producer that reads the tail of the Ranger log files and pushes that to a Kafka topic. Here is an example of an implementation in Python.