Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform. Use this connection with Import Kafka to read the messages of topics into a table, and with Export Kafka to send each row of a table as a message. To create one, choose Apache Kafka as the connection type.
Upstream Documentation
Section titled “Upstream Documentation”The Apache Kafka documentation.
Configuration
Section titled “Configuration”Kafka Connection
Section titled “Kafka Connection”| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Brokers | Yes | The brokers to connect to, separated by commas, such as broker1:9092,broker2:9092. |
| Security Protocol | No | PLAINTEXT (the default), SSL, SASL_PLAINTEXT, or SASL_SSL. |
| Session Timeout (ms) | No | How long the brokers wait without hearing from PlaidCloud before they drop it from the consumer group. At least 1000. |
SASL Credentials
Section titled “SASL Credentials”Used when the security protocol is SASL_PLAINTEXT or SASL_SSL.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| SASL Mechanism | PLAIN (the default), SCRAM-SHA-256, or SCRAM-SHA-512. |
| User | The user to connect as. |
| Password | The user’s password (write-only). |
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| CA Certificate (PEM) | The certificate authority that signed the brokers’ certificates, when it is not a public one. Leave it blank on edit to keep the saved certificate. |