name=tap_kafka level=INFO message=Initialising Kafka Consumer... cmd_type=elb consumer=False name=tap-kafka producer=True stdio=stderr string_id=tap-kafka

I'm trying to connect to data from kafka and store as json. The log shows

consumer=False and  producer=True

ie It mentions that it's not a consumer (consumer=False), but rather a producer (producer=True). How to initialise consumer=True in the config?

It's a bit of term overloading. Consumer and producer are concepts in the context of `meltano run`: an extractor is a producer, a loader is a consumer and a mapper is both.