Tag Archives: Kafka REST Proxy

Securing JMX on Confluent Kafka

Securing JMX on Confluent Kafka Confluent kafka process start with these default arguments. You can see that JMX authentication is disabled by default. This is a security vulnerability and might lead to possible issues. Confluent kafka consists of the following services. We need to enable authentication for all of these services for JMX: Kafka Broker… Continue reading »

KAFKA REST Proxy – Publishing Avro Messages to Kafka

KAFKA REST Proxy – Publishing Avro Messages to Kafka Apache Kafka supports message publishing through REST too. We can use Kafka REST proxy for this purpose. It supports http verbs including GET, POST and DELETE. Her is an example POST using curl which we will be trying to dissect throughout this post: Required Schema Apache… Continue reading »

Kafka Tools – kafka.tools.ReplayLogProducer [Copy from a Topic]

Kafka Tools – kafka.tools.ReplayLogProducer Replay Log Producer is a Kafka tool available to copy messages from one Kafka Topic to the other in the same Broker cluster. This supports copying a limited or all messages from a Kafka Topic. The tool is specially useful in a development environment when we want to test something with… Continue reading »

Installing Confluent Platform on Mac OS

Installing Confluent Platform on Mac OS There are no direct download instructions available on the confluent platform yet to install the packages on Mac OS. I just want to share it with others just in case someone might need some help with this. Download the Archive The zip packages can be downloaded from here: Download…. Continue reading »

Confluent Components & Their HTTP Ports

Confluent Components & Their HTTP Ports

Confluent Components & Their HTTP Ports It is very important to remember the ports of individual components of Confluent Platform. The following is the list of default ports for the respective components. It must be remembered that these ports can be overridden during deployment. More details can be found on this page on confluent.io where… Continue reading »