diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 19d228755..6f06904e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ sysinfo = "0.31.4"
 thread-priority = "1.0.0"
 uptime_lib = "0.3.0"
 
-# Kafka
-rdkafka = { version = "0.36.2", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
-
 # Utility Libraries
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
 bytes = "1.4"
@@ -156,3 +153,6 @@ codegen-units = 1
 # adding rdkafka here because, for unsupported platforms, cargo skips other deps which come after this
 [target.'cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))'.dependencies]
 rdkafka = { version = "0.36.2", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
+
+[target.'cfg(all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64"))'.dependencies]
+rdkafka = { version = "0.36.2", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 423339516..c1061cd65 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -26,10 +26,16 @@ use crate::{
     option::{validation, Compression, Mode},
 };
 
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+    all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+))]
 use crate::kafka::SslProtocol as KafkaSslProtocol;
 
-#[cfg(not(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64")))]
+#[cfg(not(any(
+    all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+    all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+)))]
 use std::string::String as KafkaSslProtocol;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
@@ -507,7 +513,10 @@ impl FromArgMatches for Cli {
     }
 
     fn update_from_arg_matches(&mut self, m: &clap::ArgMatches) -> Result<(), clap::Error> {
-        #[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+        #[cfg(any(
+            all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+            all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+        ))]
         {
             self.kafka_topics = m.get_one::<String>(Self::KAFKA_TOPICS).cloned();
             self.kafka_security_protocol = m
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c2ab80bf2..973406cb5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ pub mod correlation;
 mod event;
 pub mod handlers;
 pub mod hottier;
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+    all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+))]
 pub mod kafka;
 mod livetail;
 mod metadata;
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 798372339..80607a6d3 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ use parseable::{
 };
 use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+    all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+))]
 use parseable::kafka;
 
 #[actix_web::main]
@@ -49,7 +52,10 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     // keep metadata info in mem
     metadata.set_global();
 
-    #[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
+    #[cfg(any(
+        all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
+        all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "aarch64")
+    ))]
     // load kafka server
     if CONFIG.parseable.mode != Mode::Query {
         tokio::task::spawn(kafka::setup_integration());