Kafka

Kafka#

The configuration of a Kafka connection allows you to use Apache Kafka to receive event messages from nJAMS Client. Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming-platform for high-performance message processing.

Kafka connection configuration page

(A) Enter the basic information for the Kafka connection:

  • Specify a name for the Kafka connection

  • Enter the address for the Kafka bootstrap server(s)

  • Select the offset for message consumption:

    • latest: start consuming messages from Kafka topic as of now

    • earliest: consumes earliest available messages from Kafka topic

  • Enable/disable collecting Statistics for topic

  • Change default Client-ID prefix using this connection (optional)

  • Change default consumer Group-ID prefix using this connection (optional)

(B) Enter additional connection paramters as name/valu eparis