Category: Connecting to Apache Kafka

Kafka Connect Elasticsearch Connector in Action

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Danny Kay

The Elasticsearch sink connector helps you integrate Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch with minimum effort. You can take data you’ve stored

Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka Connectors

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Mau Barra

We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the

Integrating Elasticsearch and ksqlDB for Powerful Data Enrichment and Analytics

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Sarwar Bhuiyan

Apache Kafka® is often deployed alongside Elasticsearch to perform log exploration, metrics monitoring and alerting, data visualisation, and analytics. It

Transferring Avro Schemas Across Schema Registries with Kafka Connect

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Jordan Moore

Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale

4 Steps to Creating Apache Kafka Connectors with the Kafka Connect API

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Tiffany Chang

If you’ve worked with the Apache Kafka® and Confluent ecosystem before, chances are you’ve used a Kafka Connect connector to

Internet of Things (IoT) and Event Streaming at Scale with Apache Kafka and MQTT

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Kai Waehner

The Internet of Things (IoT) is getting more and more traction as valuable use cases come to light. A key

Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Shruti Bhat

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However,

Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing in Apache Kafka: Why Stop the World When You Can Change It?

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Konstantine Karantasis

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and

A Guide to the Confluent Verified Integrations Program

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Jeff Bean

When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to

Kafka Connect Improvements in Apache Kafka 2.3

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Robin Moffatt

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka