Kafka Component
Publish messages to an Apache Kafka event stream
Component key: kafka
Description
Apache Kafka is an event streaming platform to implement high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and other applications. This component allows you to publish messages to an Apache Kafka event stream.
Connections
Basic Username/Password
| Input | Notes | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication Mechanism | Desired authorization method for passing username/password. | |
| Password | Password | |
| Username | Username |
Actions
Publish Messages
Publish a message to an Apache Kafka topic. | key: publishMessages
| Input | Notes | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Brokers | A Kafka broker allows consumers to fetch messages by topic, partition and offset. | [192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2] |
| Client ID | A Client Id is an optional identifier of a Kafka consumer that is passed to a Kafka broker with every request. | myExampleClient |
| Connection | ||
| Messages | Provide a string for a message to be sent to the Kafka topic | |
| Topic | A Topic is a category/feed name to which records are stored and published. | myTopic |