Kafka offsets_for_times not working with Beats because of a Sarama bug

[fboismenu]

Because of a bug in Sarama library, when producing messages to Kafka, client cannot start consuming from a point in time based on a timestamp.

Example of clients which are affected:

$ kcat -C -o s@timestamp

or in python

consumer.offsets_for_times(partitions)

The fix has been released in Sarama https://github.com/IBM/sarama/releases/tag/v1.45.1

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