# bsm/sarama-cluster

Cluster extensions for Sarama, the Go client library for Apache Kafka 0.9 [DEPRECATED]

Repository: https://github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sarama-cluster
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kafka, consumer, go, sarama, deprecated
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-01-08T11:57:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4277, "days_push": 2429, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1002, forks 218 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:09.713497+00:00)

## What it is
Cluster extensions for Sarama providing Kafka consumer-group support for Go, built for Apache Kafka 0.9+. It is officially deprecated since Sarama v1.19.0 includes native consumer-group support.

## Use cases
- consume kafka topics in a consumer group from go
- kafka consumer with rebalancing notifications
- multiplexed kafka message consumption in go
- partition-level kafka consumer access
- mark kafka offsets after processing

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Go codebase already built on this library
- targeting very old Kafka 0.9 clusters with Sarama

## When to avoid
- starting any new Go Kafka project - use Sarama's native consumer groups or franz-go/confluent-kafka-go
- you need features only in the native Sarama implementation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: message-queue, streaming
- domain: microservices, developer-tools
- platform: go, windows
- tags: kafka, consumer-groups, sarama, deprecated, messaging, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- bsm/sarama-cluster (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:09.713497+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:13:57.474750+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:09.713497+00:00, sha 76371cd3d029)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.