By following tutorial at http://druid.io/docs/latest/tutorials/tutorial-loading-streaming-data.html , I was able to insert data into druid via Kafka console Kafka console The spec file looks as following examples/indexing/wikipedia.spec [ { "dataSchema" : { "dataSource" : "wikipedia", "parser" : { "type" : "string", "parseSpec" : { "format" : "json", "timestampSpec" : { "column" : "timestamp", "format" : "auto" }, "dimensionsSpec" : { "dimensions": ["page","language","user","unpatrolled","newPage","robot","anonymous","namespace","continent","country","region","city"], "dimensionExclusions" : [