notify: add Kafka receiver

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Pull Request Checklist

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• Please list all open issue(s) discussed with maintainers related to this change
  • Fixes Support for sending notification to kafka #1996
• Is this a new Receiver integration?
  • I have already tried to use the Webhook Receiver Integration and 3rd party integrations before adding this new Receiver Integration
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Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[FEATURE] notify: Add an Apache Kafka receiver using the webhook v4 JSON message format.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added an Apache Kafka notification receiver that publishes webhook v4 JSON messages. Added Kafka configuration, receiver wiring, documentation, metrics registration, and tests. Added integration cleanup during construction, reload, and shutdown.

Changes

Kafka receiver

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Kafka notifier and configuration notify/kafka/*, notify/kafka/*_test.go	Adds Kafka configuration validation and publishes grouped alerts as webhook v4 JSON records.
Receiver configuration and wiring config/..., docs/..., notify/metrics.go, CHANGELOG.md	Adds kafka_configs, constructs Kafka integrations, registers Kafka metrics, documents the receiver, and adjusts receiver credential fallback handling.
Integration resource cleanup notify/notify.go, notify/integration_close_test.go, app/reloader.go, app/reloader_test.go	Adds integration closing and joins cleanup errors during construction, reload, and shutdown.
Kafka package documentation kafka/kafka.go	Updates package documentation to identify the Kafka notification receiver as a current package user.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ed33

Alongside adding the Kafka receiver, this change removes exported notification configuration type names, which can break existing integrations at compile time; compatibility aliases or an explicit migration decision are needed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Alertmanager
  participant ReceiverBuilder
  participant KafkaNotifier as notify/kafka.Notifier
  participant KafkaProducer
  participant KafkaBroker
  Alertmanager->>ReceiverBuilder: Build Kafka integrations
  ReceiverBuilder->>KafkaNotifier: Create notifier from kafka_configs
  Alertmanager->>KafkaNotifier: Notify grouped alerts
  KafkaNotifier->>KafkaNotifier: Render webhook v4 JSON
  KafkaNotifier->>KafkaProducer: ProduceSync topic, group key, JSON value
  KafkaProducer->>KafkaBroker: Publish Kafka record

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR includes unrelated corrections to tracing, PagerDuty, VictorOps, and existing receiver credential handling beyond Kafka support.	Move unrelated documentation and existing-receiver credential changes to separate PRs, or explain their necessity for the Kafka integration.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding a Kafka receiver.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the issue, applicable checklist items, tests, documentation, compatibility statements, and release notes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation provides Kafka notification configuration, receiver construction, message publishing, tests, and documentation requested by issue #1996.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)

notify/kafka/config.go (1)

45-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap propagated Kafka errors with operation context.

Direct error returns make YAML parsing and producer construction failures harder to locate. Wrap each propagated error with fmt.Errorf("kafka: <operation>: %w", err).

• notify/kafka/config.go#L45-L53: wrap YAML unmarshal and client-option validation errors.
• notify/kafka/kafka.go#L46-L55: wrap configuration validation and producer-option construction errors.

As per coding guidelines, “Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) and check with errors.Is/errors.As in Go code.”

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@notify/kafka/config.go` around lines 45 - 53, Wrap the propagated errors in
Config unmarshalling and validate using fmt.Errorf with “kafka: <operation>: %w”
context, covering both sites: notify/kafka/config.go lines 45-53 for YAML
unmarshal and client-option validation, and notify/kafka/kafka.go lines 46-55
for configuration validation and producer-option construction. Preserve error
unwrapping so callers can continue using errors.Is and errors.As.

Source: Coding guidelines

app/reloader.go (1)

127-130: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add receiver context to the joined error.

A receiver build failure is returned without the receiver name. Wrap err before joining it with cleanup errors.

As per coding guidelines, “Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) and check with errors.Is/errors.As in Go code.”

Proposed fix

-			return errors.Join(err, notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations))
+			return errors.Join(
+				fmt.Errorf("build receiver %q: %w", rcv.Name, err),
+				notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations),
+			)

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@app/reloader.go` around lines 127 - 130, Update the receiver build error
handling around BuildReceiverIntegrations to wrap err with receiver context
using fmt.Errorf and %w before joining it with
notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations), including the receiver name in the
message while preserving errors.Is/errors.As unwrapping.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 2039-2042: Update both occurrences of the producer acknowledgement
documentation in docs/configuration.md to remove the claim that acks: "all"
enables idempotent writes. Keep the description focused on waiting for all
in-sync replicas, while preserving the existing acknowledgement-level behavior
and syntax.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@app/reloader.go`:
- Around line 127-130: Update the receiver build error handling around
BuildReceiverIntegrations to wrap err with receiver context using fmt.Errorf and
%w before joining it with notify.CloseIntegrations(integrations), including the
receiver name in the message while preserving errors.Is/errors.As unwrapping.

In `@notify/kafka/config.go`:
- Around line 45-53: Wrap the propagated errors in Config unmarshalling and
validate using fmt.Errorf with “kafka: <operation>: %w” context, covering both
sites: notify/kafka/config.go lines 45-53 for YAML unmarshal and client-option
validation, and notify/kafka/kafka.go lines 46-55 for configuration validation
and producer-option construction. Preserve error unwrapping so callers can
continue using errors.Is and errors.As.

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• CHANGELOG.md
• app/reloader.go
• app/reloader_test.go
• config/config.go
• config/config_test.go
• config/receiver/receiver.go
• config/receiver/receiver_test.go
• docs/configuration.md
• docs/integrations.md
• kafka/kafka.go
• notify/integration_close_test.go
• notify/kafka/config.go
• notify/kafka/config_test.go
• notify/kafka/kafka.go
• notify/kafka/kafka_test.go
• notify/metrics.go
• notify/notify.go

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

config/config.go (1)

1005-1005: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add compatibility aliases for the moved configuration types.

config.PushoverConfig, config.SNSConfig, and config.RocketchatConfig were exported named types in config/notifiers.go and are now absent. Existing callers that assign []*config.*Config to these receiver fields will not compile. Add aliases in config or an equivalent compatibility layer before merging.

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In `@config/config.go` at line 1005, Add compatibility aliases in the config
package for the moved exported types PushoverConfig, SNSConfig, and
RocketchatConfig, pointing each to its corresponding notifier package type.
Preserve assignability for existing callers using []*config.*Config with fields
such as PushoverConfigs, without changing the receiver field definitions.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@config/config.go`:
- Line 1005: Add compatibility aliases in the config package for the moved
exported types PushoverConfig, SNSConfig, and RocketchatConfig, pointing each to
its corresponding notifier package type. Preserve assignability for existing
callers using []*config.*Config with fields such as PushoverConfigs, without
changing the receiver field definitions.

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