About the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) collector
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a managed service offered by Amazon that provides Apache Kafka clusters on AWS infrastructure. Use this collector to harvest metadata from Amazon MSK clusters.
Important
The Amazon MSK collector can be run on-premise using Docker or Jar files.
Note
The latest version of the Collector is 2.249. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.
What is cataloged
The collector catalogs the following information.
Object | Information cataloged |
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Cluster |
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Producer |
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Consumer |
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Broker |
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Partition |
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Consumer Group |
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Topic |
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Note
The collector can only harvest schema registry information from Confluent Schema Registry. Other schema registry implementations, such as AWS Glue, are not supported.
Relationships between objects
By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.
Resource page | Relationship |
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Cluster |
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Producer |
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Consumer Group |
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Consumer |
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Broker |
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Topic |
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Partition |
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Versions supported
The collector currently supports version 2.7.x and above of Apache Kafka (limited support) and 3.3.x and above of Apache Kafka (full support).
Note
Limited support means that Kafka versions prior to 3.x do not guarantee uniqueness of topic identifiers, so the collector relies upon the topic name to create the distinct catalog resource identifier for each topic.
Authentication supported
The collector supports authentication to a Kafka cluster using Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), with a username/password credential. For SASL, the collector supports both PLAIN and SCRAM-SHA-512 authentication mechanism.
By default, the collector assumes that SASL is used over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). In cases where SSL is disabled (for example, internal test clusters in Kafka), you can disable SSL for the collector. Consult the Apache Kafka documentation for more information on Kafka security.
The collector will not authenticate to clusters that use any other authentication mechanism (e.g., IAM authentication on Amazon MSK, IAM access control - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka).