Kafka

Connect to Kafka

1. Go to the Resources page and click the button.

2. Select Kafka.

3. Enter your account credentials and click Connect.

• Group ID: The Group ID is how you distinguish different consumer groups. (e.g. group.id)

• Protocol: The Protocol used to communicate with brokers.

• Client ID: An ID string to pass to the server when making requests. The purpose of this is to be able to track the source of requests beyond just ip/port by allowing a logical application name to be included in server-side request logging.

• Test Topic: The Topic to test in case the Acho can consume messages. (e.g. test.topic)

• Subscription Method: You can choose to manually assign a list of partitions, or subscribe to all topics matching specified pattern to get dynamically assigned partitions.

• List of topic

• Bootstrap Servers: A list of host/port pairs to use for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.

4. Choose tables to import and click Finish Setup.

5. You will see a icon next to your resource. It may take a few minutes to several hours depending on the data size and the number of your tables. Once your data is ready, you will receive a notification email.