diff --git a/types/kafkajs/index.d.ts b/types/kafkajs/index.d.ts
index c416a07063..96a05a527a 100644
--- a/types/kafkajs/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/kafkajs/index.d.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Type definitions for kafkajs 1.4
+// Type definitions for kafkajs 1.8
 // Project: https://github.com/tulios/kafkajs, https://kafka.js.org
 // Definitions by: Michal Kaminski <https://github.com/michal-b-kaminski>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
@@ -71,6 +71,31 @@ export enum ResourceTypes {
     DELEGATION_TOKEN = 6
 }
 
+export interface LoggerMessage {
+    /** @var namespace Context from which the logger was called. */
+    readonly namespace: string;
+
+    /** @var level Logger level. */
+    readonly level: logLevel;
+
+    /** @var label Logger level label. */
+    readonly label: string;
+
+    /** @var log Content of the logger entry. */
+    readonly log: LoggerMessageContent;
+}
+
+export interface LoggerMessageContent {
+    /** @var timestamp Message timestamp. */
+    readonly timestamp: Date;
+
+    /** @var message Message sent to the logger. */
+    readonly message: string;
+
+    // Other possible fields in the content, that depend on the context.
+    [key: string]: any;
+}
+
 export interface KafkaOptions {
     clientId?: string;
     brokers: string[];
@@ -80,6 +105,7 @@ export interface KafkaOptions {
     requestTimeout?: number;
     retry?: RetryOptions;
     logLevel?: logLevel;
+    logCreator?: () => (message: LoggerMessage) => void;
 }
 
 export interface SASLOptions {
diff --git a/types/kafkajs/kafkajs-tests.ts b/types/kafkajs/kafkajs-tests.ts
index 3ae0f37c2c..15fe47deba 100644
--- a/types/kafkajs/kafkajs-tests.ts
+++ b/types/kafkajs/kafkajs-tests.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import {
     CompressionTypes,
     CompressionCodecs,
     ResourceTypes,
-    PartitionAssigner
+    PartitionAssigner,
+    LoggerMessage
 } from "kafkajs";
 
 const { MemberMetadata, MemberAssignment } = AssignerProtocol;
@@ -18,6 +19,10 @@ const { roundRobin } = PartitionAssigners;
 const host = "localhost";
 const topic = "topic-test";
 
+const logger = (loggerMessage: LoggerMessage): void => {
+    console.log(`[${loggerMessage.namespace}] ${loggerMessage.log.message}`);
+};
+
 const kafka = new Kafka({
     logLevel: logLevel.INFO,
     brokers: [`${host}:9094`, `${host}:9097`, `${host}:9100`],
@@ -31,7 +36,8 @@ const kafka = new Kafka({
         mechanism: "plain",
         username: "test",
         password: "testtest"
-    }
+    },
+    logCreator: () => logger
 });
 
 // CONSUMER