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Version: 1.2.x

Sink Kafka

Purpose​

Defines the outbound connection parameters for a Kafka sink.

This Asset can be used by:​

Asset typeLink
Output ProcessorsFrame Output Processor

Prerequisite​

You need:

Configuration​

Name & Description​

Name : Name of the Asset. Spaces are not allowed in the name.

Description : Enter a description.

The Asset Usage box shows how many times this Asset is used and which parts are referencing it. Click to expand and then click to follow, if any.

Required roles​

In case you are deploying to a Cluster which is running (a) Reactive Engine Nodes which have (b) specific Roles configured, then you can restrict use of this Asset to those Nodes with matching roles. If you want this restriction, then enter the names of the Required Roles here. Otherwise, leave empty to match all Nodes (no restriction).

Kafka Connection​

Select the Kafka Connection to use with this Asset. If it does not exist, you need to create it first.

Kafka Producer Settings​

General​

  • Parallelism : In order to accelerate writing to a Kafka topic, you can parallelize this process. Entering 100 here, for example allows layline.io to have 100 messages "in-flight" to Kafka in parallel to be written to a Kafka topic.

Additional Kafka Properties​

Use this section to add configuration parameters available for Kafka Platform such as compression.type or even ssl.keystore.key.

For a list of available properties please check Confluent Producer Configurations.

Attention: Kafka properties take precedence

Please note that properties defined here, take precedence over all other settings you may have provided in this UI. You can use this to add, or override Kafka properties using these settings.

Exclusive partition access​

In case you want to exclusively write to one or more partitions, then Enable exclusive partition access.

Click ADD TOPIC to add new topics. Enter the Topic in the new table row.

Internal​

External​

Potential problems​

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