In the Kafka profile configuration, you define which Kafka broker to consume messages from or produce messages to, if

security shall be applied, and if other specific settings for communication

are needed.

Configuration

To create a new Kafka profile configuration, click on the New Configuration button and

select Kafka Profile from the Configurations dialog.

The Kafka profile configuration contains two tabs

; Connectivity and Advanced.

Connectivity tab

The Connectivity tab is displayed by default when creating or opening a Kafka profile.

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The Connectivity tab contains the following settings:

Advanced tab

In the Advanced tab, you can configure properties for optimizing the performance of the Kafka Producer and Consumer. The Advanced tab contains two tabs

; Producer and Consumer.

Producer tab

In the Producer tab, you can configure the properties of the Kafka forwarding agent. 

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Kafka profile configuration - Producer tab in the Advanced tab

For information on how to configure the properties for SSL and Kerberos,

see https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/kafka/latest/topics/kafka_security.html.

For further information on the properties

, see https://kafka.apache.org.

Enabling Compression for Kafka

Compression for messages to be sent to Kafka brokers can now be enabled from the Advanced producer properties. The compression codec utilized by the system follows the standard Kafka library, where Gzip, Lz4 and Snappy are supported.

To enable compression, just add the property compression.type into the Advanced producer properties

and add the value, gzip, lz4, snappy or none.

Consumer tab

In the Consumer tab, you can configure the properties of the Kafka collection agent.

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See the text in the Advanced consumer properties field for further information about the properties.