title: Is there a way to configure JMeter to listen to a kafka topic?
body: <p>We have a system that exposes an HTTP endpoint which triggers some internal operations and sends asynchronously a message to kafka queue. We'd like to measure performance where the input is the HTTP request and the expected output is a message published to the queue. </p>
  
  <p>We're evaluating if JMeter is the right tool for such measurement. While HTTP requests are trivial, Kafka listener not at all. Is there any way to configure/extend JMeter to read a message from a specific topic and (ideally) put some assertions on it?</p>