Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Configure a Kafka catalog source to extract metadata from Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud source systems.
Objects extracted
The metadata extraction service extracts the following objects from a Kafka source system:
•Cluster
•Topic
•Field
Supported file types
You can extract the following file types in Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka from Kafka source system :