Kafka

Ingest your files into Unstructured from Kafka.

The requirements are as follows.

• A Kafka cluster, such as ones offered by the following providers:

  • Confluent Cloud (Create a cluster.)

    The following video shows how to set up a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud:

  • Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) (Create an Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster, or create an Amazon MSK Serverless cluster.)

  • [Apache Kafka in Azure HDInsight] (Create an Apache Kafka cluster in Azure HDInsight.)

  • Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka (Create a cluster.)

• The hostname and port number of the bootstrap Kafka cluster to connect to.

  • For Confuent Cloud, get the hostname and port number.
  • For Amazon MSK, get the hostname and port number.
  • For Apache Kafka in Azure HDInsight, get the hostname and port number.
  • For Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, get the hostname and port number.

• The name of the topic to read messages from and write messages to on the cluster.

  • For Confluent Cloud, create a topic and access available topics.
  • For Amazon MSK, create a topic on an Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster, or create a topic on an Amazon MSK Serverless cluster.
  • For Apache Kafka in Azure HDInsight, create a topic and access available topics.
  • For Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, create a topic and access available topics.

• If you use Kafka API keys and secrets for authentication, the key and secret values.

  • For Confluent Cloud, create an API key and secret.
  • For Amazon MSK, create an API key and secret.
  • For Apache Kafka in Azure HDInsight, create an API key and secret.
  • For Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, create an API key and secret.

To create the source connector:

1. On the sidebar, click Connectors.
2. Click Sources.
3. Cick New or Create Connector.
4. Give the connector some unique Name.
5. In the Provider area, click Kafka.
6. Click Continue.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to fill in the fields as described later on this page.
8. Click Save and Test.

Fill in the following fields:

• Name (required): A unique name for this connector.
• Bootstrap Server (required): The hostname of the bootstrap Kafka cluster to connect to.
• Port: The port number of the cluster.
• Group ID: The ID of the consumer group, if any, that is associated with the target Kafka cluster. (A consumer group is a way to allow a pool of consumers to divide the consumption of data over topics and partitions.) The default is default_group_id if not otherwise specified.
• Topic (required): The unique name of the topic to read messages from and write messages to on the cluster.
• Number of messages to consume: The maximum number of messages to get from the topic. The default is 1 if not otherwise specified.
• Batch Size: The maximum number of messages to send in a single batch.
• API Key (required): The Kafka API key value.
• Secret (required): The secret value for the Kafka API key.