Explore Kafka Services
This tutorial, demonstrates the basics of using API Hub for Explore to subscribe and publish to a Kafka service.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial, you need:
Basic knowledge of Kafka services.
Access to a Kafka installation.
Kafka API Event Stream Example
You need to use your own Kafka site for this tutorial. As a result, you also need to adjust your settings in the following examples.
Subscribe to an event stream
Let's subscribe to an event feed from Kafka. To do that:
From the Protocol menu, select Kafka.
From the Operation menu, select Subscribe.
In the Server field, enter your server address.
In the Channel field enter your channel.
Click Authorization Settings and complete the required fields for your login credentials.
Click Connection Settings & Parameters and complete the required fields to specify how long you want the subscription to last.
Click Subscribe to begin your subscription.
As events happen, the Received Messages section starts to display records, with the most recent at the top.
Click individual event messages to view details.
Note
The subscription streams for the duration specified in your Connection Settings & Parameters settings.
Publish with Kafka
To publish data with Kafka:
From the Operation menu, select Publish.
Click Body and paste your data into the Body field.
Click Publish.