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Kinesis Source Connector

The Kinesis Source Connector is used to pull data from Amazon Kinesis and persist the data to a Kafka topic.

Examples

Property based example

This configuration is used typically along with standalone workers.

name=KinesisSourceConnector1
connector.class=io.confluent.connect.kinesis.KinesisSourceConnector
tasks.max=1
aws.access.key.id=< Required Configuration >
aws.secret.key.id=< Required Configuration >
kafka.topic=< Required Configuration >
kinesis.stream=< Required Configuration >

Rest based example

This configuration is used typically along with distributed workers. Write the following json to connector.json, configure all of the required values, and use the command below to post the configuration to one the distributed connect worker(s). Check here for more information about the Kafka Connect Rest API

Connect Distributed REST example
{
  "config" : {
    "name" : "KinesisSourceConnector1",
    "connector.class" : "io.confluent.connect.kinesis.KinesisSourceConnector",
    "tasks.max" : "1",
    "aws.access.key.id" : "< Required Configuration >",
    "aws.secret.key.id" : "< Required Configuration >",
    "kafka.topic" : "< Required Configuration >",
    "kinesis.stream" : "< Required Configuration >"
  }
}

Use curl to post the configuration to one of the Kafka Connect Workers. Change http://localhost:8083/ the the endpoint of one of your Kafka Connect worker(s).

Create a new connector
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors
Update an existing connector
curl -s -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors/KinesisSourceConnector1/config