1. Proposed title of this feature request
Send Logs to Kafka With SASL authentication
2. What is the nature and description of the request?
Currently, tls method is available to send logs to kaka CU requested to have SASL authentication log forwarding
3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
Currently, Customer forwarding Logs to Kafka Using fluent instances with a custom config map and this method will be deprecated, unable switch to the ClusterLogForwarder because there is only the option for plaintext and ssl without authentication or SSL with certificate-based authentication, hence cu want to have SASL authentication in Log forwarding,
4. List any affected packages or components.