[kafkareceiver] support session timeout configs (and maybe more) in kafka receiver.

[ben-childs-docusign]

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receiver/kafka

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We are trying to configure our kafka receiver based on the azure event hub recommendations but some of the configuration values are not available. We were seeing unecessary consumer failovers in our collector. The default session timeout is 10s but eventhub recommends a timeout of 30 seconds for event hub consumers.

These are the recommended settings from Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/apache-kafka-configurations

Describe the solution you'd like

Add consumer.group.session.timeout config. E,g,

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

No response

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[VihasMakwana]

Hi @ben-childs-docusign, thanks for raising this request!
Sounds like a valid ask. Let's see what owners have to say on this.
Also, would you be willing to raise a PR, as you already shared a snippet?

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[ben-childs-docusign]

@VihasMakwana I can potentially contribute a change it just might take me a few weeks. My local change just hard codes the setting it doesn't fully connect the dots on the config.

[strawgate]

@ben-childs-docusign I've linked a PR that adds these settings

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