• config.storage.topic

      The name of the Kafka topic where connector configurations are stored

    • group.id

      A unique string that identifies the Connect cluster group this worker belongs to.

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • key.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the keys in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • offset.storage.topic

      The name of the Kafka topic where connector offsets are stored

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • status.storage.topic

      The name of the Kafka topic where connector and task status are stored

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • value.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • bootstrap.servers

      A list of host/port pairs to use for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster. The client will make use of all servers irrespective of which servers are specified here for bootstrapping—this list only impacts the initial hosts used to discover the full set of servers. This list should be in the form . Since these servers are just used for the initial connection to discover the full cluster membership (which may change dynamically), this list need not contain the full set of servers (you may want more than one, though, in case a server is down).

      Type:list
      Default:localhost:9092
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • heartbeat.interval.ms

      The expected time between heartbeats to the group coordinator when using Kafka’s group management facilities. Heartbeats are used to ensure that the worker’s session stays active and to facilitate rebalancing when new members join or leave the group. The value must be set lower than session.timeout.ms, but typically should be set no higher than 1/3 of that value. It can be adjusted even lower to control the expected time for normal rebalances.

      Type:int
      Default:3000 (3 seconds)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • rebalance.timeout.ms

      The maximum allowed time for each worker to join the group once a rebalance has begun. This is basically a limit on the amount of time needed for all tasks to flush any pending data and commit offsets. If the timeout is exceeded, then the worker will be removed from the group, which will cause offset commit failures.

      Type:int
      Default:60000 (1 minute)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • session.timeout.ms

      The timeout used to detect worker failures. The worker sends periodic heartbeats to indicate its liveness to the broker. If no heartbeats are received by the broker before the expiration of this session timeout, then the broker will remove the worker from the group and initiate a rebalance. Note that the value must be in the allowable range as configured in the broker configuration by group.min.session.timeout.ms and group.max.session.timeout.ms.

      Type:int
      Default:10000 (10 seconds)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.key.password

      The password of the private key in the key store file orthe PEM key specified in `ssl.keystore.key’. This is required for clients only if two-way authentication is configured.

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.keystore.certificate.chain

      Certificate chain in the format specified by ‘ssl.keystore.type’. Default SSL engine factory supports only PEM format with a list of X.509 certificates

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.keystore.key

      Private key in the format specified by ‘ssl.keystore.type’. Default SSL engine factory supports only PEM format with PKCS#8 keys. If the key is encrypted, key password must be specified using ‘ssl.key.password’

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.keystore.location

      The location of the key store file. This is optional for client and can be used for two-way authentication for client.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.keystore.password

      The store password for the key store file. This is optional for client and only needed if ‘ssl.keystore.location’ is configured. Key store password is not supported for PEM format.

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.truststore.certificates

      Trusted certificates in the format specified by ‘ssl.truststore.type’. Default SSL engine factory supports only PEM format with X.509 certificates.

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.truststore.location

      The location of the trust store file.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • ssl.truststore.password

      The password for the trust store file. If a password is not set, trust store file configured will still be used, but integrity checking is disabled. Trust store password is not supported for PEM format.

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • client.dns.lookup

      Controls how the client uses DNS lookups. If set to use_all_dns_ips, connect to each returned IP address in sequence until a successful connection is established. After a disconnection, the next IP is used. Once all IPs have been used once, the client resolves the IP(s) from the hostname again (both the JVM and the OS cache DNS name lookups, however). If set to resolve_canonical_bootstrap_servers_only, resolve each bootstrap address into a list of canonical names. After the bootstrap phase, this behaves the same as .

      Type:string
      Default:use_all_dns_ips
      Valid Values:[use_all_dns_ips, resolve_canonical_bootstrap_servers_only]
      Importance:medium
    • connections.max.idle.ms

      Close idle connections after the number of milliseconds specified by this config.

      Type:long
      Default:540000 (9 minutes)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • connector.client.config.override.policy

      Class name or alias of implementation of ConnectorClientConfigOverridePolicy. Defines what client configurations can be overriden by the connector. The default implementation is `All`, meaning connector configurations can override all client properties. The other possible policies in the framework include `None` to disallow connectors from overriding client properties, and `Principal` to allow connectors to override only client principals.

      Type:string
      Default:All
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • receive.buffer.bytes

      The size of the TCP receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) to use when reading data. If the value is -1, the OS default will be used.

      Type:int
      Default:32768 (32 kibibytes)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:medium
    • request.timeout.ms

      The configuration controls the maximum amount of time the client will wait for the response of a request. If the response is not received before the timeout elapses the client will resend the request if necessary or fail the request if retries are exhausted.

      Type:int
      Default:40000 (40 seconds)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:medium
    • sasl.client.callback.handler.class

      The fully qualified name of a SASL client callback handler class that implements the AuthenticateCallbackHandler interface.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • sasl.jaas.config

      JAAS login context parameters for SASL connections in the format used by JAAS configuration files. JAAS configuration file format is described . The format for the value is: loginModuleClass controlFlag (optionName=optionValue)*;. For brokers, the config must be prefixed with listener prefix and SASL mechanism name in lower-case. For example, listener.name.sasl_ssl.scram-sha-256.sasl.jaas.config=com.example.ScramLoginModule required;

      Type:password
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The Kerberos principal name that Kafka runs as. This can be defined either in Kafka’s JAAS config or in Kafka’s config.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The fully qualified name of a SASL login callback handler class that implements the AuthenticateCallbackHandler interface. For brokers, login callback handler config must be prefixed with listener prefix and SASL mechanism name in lower-case. For example, listener.name.sasl_ssl.scram-sha-256.sasl.login.callback.handler.class=com.example.CustomScramLoginCallbackHandler

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The fully qualified name of a class that implements the Login interface. For brokers, login config must be prefixed with listener prefix and SASL mechanism name in lower-case. For example, listener.name.sasl_ssl.scram-sha-256.sasl.login.class=com.example.CustomScramLogin

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • SASL mechanism used for client connections. This may be any mechanism for which a security provider is available. GSSAPI is the default mechanism.

      Type:string
      Default:GSSAPI
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • Protocol used to communicate with brokers. Valid values are: PLAINTEXT, SSL, SASL_PLAINTEXT, SASL_SSL.

      Type:string
      Default:PLAINTEXT
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The size of the TCP send buffer (SO_SNDBUF) to use when sending data. If the value is -1, the OS default will be used.

      Type:int
      Default:131072 (128 kibibytes)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:medium
    • The list of protocols enabled for SSL connections. The default is ‘TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3’ when running with Java 11 or newer, ‘TLSv1.2’ otherwise. With the default value for Java 11, clients and servers will prefer TLSv1.3 if both support it and fallback to TLSv1.2 otherwise (assuming both support at least TLSv1.2). This default should be fine for most cases. Also see the config documentation for `ssl.protocol`.

      Type:list
      Default:TLSv1.2
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The file format of the key store file. This is optional for client.

      Type:string
      Default:JKS
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The SSL protocol used to generate the SSLContext. The default is ‘TLSv1.3’ when running with Java 11 or newer, ‘TLSv1.2’ otherwise. This value should be fine for most use cases. Allowed values in recent JVMs are ‘TLSv1.2’ and ‘TLSv1.3’. ‘TLS’, ‘TLSv1.1’, ‘SSL’, ‘SSLv2’ and ‘SSLv3’ may be supported in older JVMs, but their usage is discouraged due to known security vulnerabilities. With the default value for this config and ‘ssl.enabled.protocols’, clients will downgrade to ‘TLSv1.2’ if the server does not support ‘TLSv1.3’. If this config is set to ‘TLSv1.2’, clients will not use ‘TLSv1.3’ even if it is one of the values in ssl.enabled.protocols and the server only supports ‘TLSv1.3’.

      Type:string
      Default:TLSv1.2
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The name of the security provider used for SSL connections. Default value is the default security provider of the JVM.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • The file format of the trust store file.

      Type:string
      Default:JKS
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • When the worker is out of sync with other workers and needs to resynchronize configurations, wait up to this amount of time before giving up, leaving the group, and waiting a backoff period before rejoining.

      Type:int
      Default:3000 (3 seconds)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • When the worker is out of sync with other workers and fails to catch up within worker.sync.timeout.ms, leave the Connect cluster for this long before rejoining.

      Type:int
      Default:300000 (5 minutes)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • Sets the methods supported for cross origin requests by setting the Access-Control-Allow-Methods header. The default value of the Access-Control-Allow-Methods header allows cross origin requests for GET, POST and HEAD.

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • Value to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to for REST API requests.To enable cross origin access, set this to the domain of the application that should be permitted to access the API, or ‘*‘ to allow access from any domain. The default value only allows access from the domain of the REST API.

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • List of comma-separated URIs the Admin REST API will listen on. The supported protocols are HTTP and HTTPS. An empty or blank string will disable this feature. The default behavior is to use the regular listener (specified by the ‘listeners’ property).

      Type:list
      Default:null
      Valid Values:List of comma-separated URLs, ex: http://localhost:8080,https://localhost:8443.
      Importance:low
    • client.id

      An id string to pass to the server when making requests. The purpose of this is to be able to track the source of requests beyond just ip/port by allowing a logical application name to be included in server-side request logging.

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • config.providers

    • connect.protocol

      Compatibility mode for Kafka Connect Protocol

      Type:string
      Default:sessioned
      Valid Values:[eager, compatible, sessioned]
      Importance:low
    • header.converter

      HeaderConverter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the header values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro. By default, the SimpleHeaderConverter is used to serialize header values to strings and deserialize them by inferring the schemas.

      Type:class
      Default:org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.SimpleHeaderConverter
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • inter.worker.key.generation.algorithm

      The algorithm to use for generating internal request keys

      Type:string
      Default:HmacSHA256
      Valid Values:Any KeyGenerator algorithm supported by the worker JVM
      Importance:low
    • inter.worker.key.size

      The size of the key to use for signing internal requests, in bits. If null, the default key size for the key generation algorithm will be used.

      Type:int
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • inter.worker.key.ttl.ms

      The TTL of generated session keys used for internal request validation (in milliseconds)

      Type:int
      Default:3600000 (1 hour)
      Valid Values:[0,…,2147483647]
      Importance:low
    • inter.worker.signature.algorithm

      The algorithm used to sign internal requests

      Type:string
      Default:HmacSHA256
      Valid Values:Any MAC algorithm supported by the worker JVM
      Importance:low
    • inter.worker.verification.algorithms

      A list of permitted algorithms for verifying internal requests

      Type:list
      Default:HmacSHA256
      Valid Values:A list of one or more MAC algorithms, each supported by the worker JVM
      Importance:low
    • listeners

      List of comma-separated URIs the REST API will listen on. The supported protocols are HTTP and HTTPS.
      Specify hostname as 0.0.0.0 to bind to all interfaces.
      Leave hostname empty to bind to default interface.
      Examples of legal listener lists: HTTP://myhost:8083,HTTPS://myhost:8084

      Type:list
      Default:
      Valid Values:List of comma-separated URLs, ex: http://localhost:8080,https://localhost:8443.
      Importance:low
    • metadata.max.age.ms

      The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven’t seen any partition leadership changes to proactively discover any new brokers or partitions.

      Type:long
      Default:300000 (5 minutes)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • metric.reporters

      A list of classes to use as metrics reporters. Implementing the org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.MetricsReporter interface allows plugging in classes that will be notified of new metric creation. The JmxReporter is always included to register JMX statistics.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • metrics.num.samples

      The number of samples maintained to compute metrics.

      Type:int
      Default:2
      Valid Values:[1,…]
      Importance:low
    • metrics.recording.level

      The highest recording level for metrics.

      Type:string
      Default:INFO
      Valid Values:[INFO, DEBUG]
      Importance:low
    • metrics.sample.window.ms

      The window of time a metrics sample is computed over.

      Type:long
      Default:30000 (30 seconds)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • offset.flush.interval.ms

      Interval at which to try committing offsets for tasks.

      Type:long
      Default:60000 (1 minute)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • offset.flush.timeout.ms

      Maximum number of milliseconds to wait for records to flush and partition offset data to be committed to offset storage before cancelling the process and restoring the offset data to be committed in a future attempt.

      Type:long
      Default:5000 (5 seconds)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • offset.storage.partitions

      The number of partitions used when creating the offset storage topic

      Type:int
      Default:25
      Valid Values:Positive number, or -1 to use the broker’s default
      Importance:low
    • offset.storage.replication.factor

      Replication factor used when creating the offset storage topic

      Type:short
      Default:3
      Valid Values:Positive number not larger than the number of brokers in the Kafka cluster, or -1 to use the broker’s default
      Importance:low
    • plugin.path

      List of paths separated by commas (,) that contain plugins (connectors, converters, transformations). The list should consist of top level directories that include any combination of:
      a) directories immediately containing jars with plugins and their dependencies
      b) uber-jars with plugins and their dependencies
      c) directories immediately containing the package directory structure of classes of plugins and their dependencies
      Note: symlinks will be followed to discover dependencies or plugins.
      Examples: plugin.path=/usr/local/share/java,/usr/local/share/kafka/plugins,/opt/connectors
      Do not use config provider variables in this property, since the raw path is used by the worker’s scanner before config providers are initialized and used to replace variables.

      Type:list
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • reconnect.backoff.max.ms

      The maximum amount of time in milliseconds to wait when reconnecting to a broker that has repeatedly failed to connect. If provided, the backoff per host will increase exponentially for each consecutive connection failure, up to this maximum. After calculating the backoff increase, 20% random jitter is added to avoid connection storms.

      Type:long
      Default:1000 (1 second)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • reconnect.backoff.ms

      The base amount of time to wait before attempting to reconnect to a given host. This avoids repeatedly connecting to a host in a tight loop. This backoff applies to all connection attempts by the client to a broker.

      Type:long
      Default:50
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • response.http.headers.config

      Rules for REST API HTTP response headers

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:Comma-separated header rules, where each header rule is of the form ‘[action] [header name]:[header value]’ and optionally surrounded by double quotes if any part of a header rule contains a comma
      Importance:low
    • rest.advertised.host.name

      If this is set, this is the hostname that will be given out to other workers to connect to.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • rest.advertised.listener

      Sets the advertised listener (HTTP or HTTPS) which will be given to other workers to use.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • rest.advertised.port

      If this is set, this is the port that will be given out to other workers to connect to.

      Type:int
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • rest.extension.classes

      Comma-separated names of classes, loaded and called in the order specified. Implementing the interface ConnectRestExtension allows you to inject into Connect’s REST API user defined resources like filters. Typically used to add custom capability like logging, security, etc.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • retry.backoff.ms

      The amount of time to wait before attempting to retry a failed request to a given topic partition. This avoids repeatedly sending requests in a tight loop under some failure scenarios.

      Type:long
      Default:100
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • sasl.kerberos.kinit.cmd

      Kerberos kinit command path.

      Type:string
      Default:/usr/bin/kinit
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • sasl.kerberos.min.time.before.relogin

      Login thread sleep time between refresh attempts.

      Type:long
      Default:60000
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • sasl.kerberos.ticket.renew.jitter

      Percentage of random jitter added to the renewal time.

      Type:double
      Default:0.05
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • sasl.kerberos.ticket.renew.window.factor

      Login thread will sleep until the specified window factor of time from last refresh to ticket’s expiry has been reached, at which time it will try to renew the ticket.

      Type:double
      Default:0.8
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • sasl.login.refresh.buffer.seconds

      The amount of buffer time before credential expiration to maintain when refreshing a credential, in seconds. If a refresh would otherwise occur closer to expiration than the number of buffer seconds then the refresh will be moved up to maintain as much of the buffer time as possible. Legal values are between 0 and 3600 (1 hour); a default value of 300 (5 minutes) is used if no value is specified. This value and sasl.login.refresh.min.period.seconds are both ignored if their sum exceeds the remaining lifetime of a credential. Currently applies only to OAUTHBEARER.

      Type:short
      Default:300
      Valid Values:[0,…,3600]
      Importance:low
    • sasl.login.refresh.min.period.seconds

      The desired minimum time for the login refresh thread to wait before refreshing a credential, in seconds. Legal values are between 0 and 900 (15 minutes); a default value of 60 (1 minute) is used if no value is specified. This value and sasl.login.refresh.buffer.seconds are both ignored if their sum exceeds the remaining lifetime of a credential. Currently applies only to OAUTHBEARER.

      Type:short
      Default:60
      Valid Values:[0,…,900]
      Importance:low
    • sasl.login.refresh.window.factor

      Login refresh thread will sleep until the specified window factor relative to the credential’s lifetime has been reached, at which time it will try to refresh the credential. Legal values are between 0.5 (50%) and 1.0 (100%) inclusive; a default value of 0.8 (80%) is used if no value is specified. Currently applies only to OAUTHBEARER.

      Type:double
      Default:0.8
      Valid Values:[0.5,…,1.0]
      Importance:low
    • sasl.login.refresh.window.jitter

      The maximum amount of random jitter relative to the credential’s lifetime that is added to the login refresh thread’s sleep time. Legal values are between 0 and 0.25 (25%) inclusive; a default value of 0.05 (5%) is used if no value is specified. Currently applies only to OAUTHBEARER.

      Type:double
      Default:0.05
      Valid Values:[0.0,…,0.25]
      Importance:low
    • scheduled.rebalance.max.delay.ms

      The maximum delay that is scheduled in order to wait for the return of one or more departed workers before rebalancing and reassigning their connectors and tasks to the group. During this period the connectors and tasks of the departed workers remain unassigned

      Type:int
      Default:300000 (5 minutes)
      Valid Values:[0,…,2147483647]
      Importance:low
    • socket.connection.setup.timeout.max.ms

      The maximum amount of time the client will wait for the socket connection to be established. The connection setup timeout will increase exponentially for each consecutive connection failure up to this maximum. To avoid connection storms, a randomization factor of 0.2 will be applied to the timeout resulting in a random range between 20% below and 20% above the computed value.

      Type:long
      Default:30000 (30 seconds)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • socket.connection.setup.timeout.ms

      The amount of time the client will wait for the socket connection to be established. If the connection is not built before the timeout elapses, clients will close the socket channel.

      Type:long
      Default:10000 (10 seconds)
      Valid Values:[0,…]
      Importance:low
    • ssl.cipher.suites

      A list of cipher suites. This is a named combination of authentication, encryption, MAC and key exchange algorithm used to negotiate the security settings for a network connection using TLS or SSL network protocol. By default all the available cipher suites are supported.

      Type:list
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • ssl.client.auth

      Configures kafka broker to request client authentication. The following settings are common:

      • ssl.client.auth=required If set to required client authentication is required.
      • ssl.client.auth=requested This means client authentication is optional. unlike required, if this option is set client can choose not to provide authentication information about itself
      • ssl.client.auth=none This means client authentication is not needed.
      Type:string
      Default:none
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm

      The endpoint identification algorithm to validate server hostname using server certificate.

      Type:string
      Default:https
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • ssl.engine.factory.class

      The class of type org.apache.kafka.common.security.auth.SslEngineFactory to provide SSLEngine objects. Default value is org.apache.kafka.common.security.ssl.DefaultSslEngineFactory

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • ssl.keymanager.algorithm

    • ssl.secure.random.implementation

      The SecureRandom PRNG implementation to use for SSL cryptography operations.

      Type:string
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • ssl.trustmanager.algorithm

      The algorithm used by trust manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the trust manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine.

      Type:string
      Default:PKIX
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • status.storage.partitions

      The number of partitions used when creating the status storage topic

      Type:int
      Default:5
      Valid Values:Positive number, or -1 to use the broker’s default
      Importance:low
    • status.storage.replication.factor

      Replication factor used when creating the status storage topic

      Type:short
      Default:3
      Valid Values:Positive number not larger than the number of brokers in the Kafka cluster, or -1 to use the broker’s default
      Importance:low
    • task.shutdown.graceful.timeout.ms

      Amount of time to wait for tasks to shutdown gracefully. This is the total amount of time, not per task. All task have shutdown triggered, then they are waited on sequentially.

      Type:long
      Default:5000 (5 seconds)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • topic.creation.enable

      Whether to allow automatic creation of topics used by source connectors, when source connectors are configured with `topic.creation.` properties. Each task will use an admin client to create its topics and will not depend on the Kafka brokers to create topics automatically.

      Type:boolean
      Default:true
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • topic.tracking.allow.reset

      If set to true, it allows user requests to reset the set of active topics per connector.

      Type:boolean
      Default:true
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • topic.tracking.enable

      Enable tracking the set of active topics per connector during runtime.

      Type:boolean
      Default:true
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low

    3.5.1 Source Connector Configs

    Below is the configuration of a source connector.

    • name

      Globally unique name to use for this connector.

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:non-empty string without ISO control characters
      Importance:high
    • connector.class

      Name or alias of the class for this connector. Must be a subclass of org.apache.kafka.connect.connector.Connector. If the connector is org.apache.kafka.connect.file.FileStreamSinkConnector, you can either specify this full name, or use “FileStreamSink” or “FileStreamSinkConnector” to make the configuration a bit shorter

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • tasks.max

      Maximum number of tasks to use for this connector.

      Type:int
      Default:1
      Valid Values:[1,…]
      Importance:high
    • key.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the keys in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • value.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • header.converter

      HeaderConverter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the header values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro. By default, the SimpleHeaderConverter is used to serialize header values to strings and deserialize them by inferring the schemas.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • config.action.reload

      The action that Connect should take on the connector when changes in external configuration providers result in a change in the connector’s configuration properties. A value of ‘none’ indicates that Connect will do nothing. A value of ‘restart’ indicates that Connect should restart/reload the connector with the updated configuration properties.The restart may actually be scheduled in the future if the external configuration provider indicates that a configuration value will expire in the future.

      Type:string
      Default:restart
      Valid Values:[none, restart]
      Importance:low
    • transforms

      Aliases for the transformations to be applied to records.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:non-null string, unique transformation aliases
      Importance:low
    • predicates

      Aliases for the predicates used by transformations.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:non-null string, unique predicate aliases
      Importance:low
    • errors.retry.timeout

      The maximum duration in milliseconds that a failed operation will be reattempted. The default is 0, which means no retries will be attempted. Use -1 for infinite retries.

      Type:long
      Default:0
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.retry.delay.max.ms

      The maximum duration in milliseconds between consecutive retry attempts. Jitter will be added to the delay once this limit is reached to prevent thundering herd issues.

      Type:long
      Default:60000 (1 minute)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.tolerance

      Behavior for tolerating errors during connector operation. ‘none’ is the default value and signals that any error will result in an immediate connector task failure; ‘all’ changes the behavior to skip over problematic records.

      Type:string
      Default:none
      Valid Values:[none, all]
      Importance:medium
    • errors.log.enable

      If true, write each error and the details of the failed operation and problematic record to the Connect application log. This is ‘false’ by default, so that only errors that are not tolerated are reported.

      Type:boolean
      Default:false
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.log.include.messages

      Whether to the include in the log the Connect record that resulted in a failure. This is ‘false’ by default, which will prevent record keys, values, and headers from being written to log files, although some information such as topic and partition number will still be logged.

      Type:boolean
      Default:false
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • topic.creation.groups

      Groups of configurations for topics created by source connectors

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:non-null string, unique topic creation groups
      Importance:low

    3.5.2 Sink Connector Configs

    Below is the configuration of a sink connector.

    • name

      Globally unique name to use for this connector.

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:non-empty string without ISO control characters
      Importance:high
    • connector.class

      Name or alias of the class for this connector. Must be a subclass of org.apache.kafka.connect.connector.Connector. If the connector is org.apache.kafka.connect.file.FileStreamSinkConnector, you can either specify this full name, or use “FileStreamSink” or “FileStreamSinkConnector” to make the configuration a bit shorter

      Type:string
      Default:
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • tasks.max

      Maximum number of tasks to use for this connector.

      Type:int
      Default:1
      Valid Values:[1,…]
      Importance:high
    • topics

      List of topics to consume, separated by commas

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:high
    • topics.regex

      Regular expression giving topics to consume. Under the hood, the regex is compiled to a java.util.regex.Pattern. Only one of topics or topics.regex should be specified.

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:valid regex
      Importance:high
    • key.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the keys in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • value.converter

      Converter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • header.converter

      HeaderConverter class used to convert between Kafka Connect format and the serialized form that is written to Kafka. This controls the format of the header values in messages written to or read from Kafka, and since this is independent of connectors it allows any connector to work with any serialization format. Examples of common formats include JSON and Avro. By default, the SimpleHeaderConverter is used to serialize header values to strings and deserialize them by inferring the schemas.

      Type:class
      Default:null
      Valid Values:
      Importance:low
    • config.action.reload

      The action that Connect should take on the connector when changes in external configuration providers result in a change in the connector’s configuration properties. A value of ‘none’ indicates that Connect will do nothing. A value of ‘restart’ indicates that Connect should restart/reload the connector with the updated configuration properties.The restart may actually be scheduled in the future if the external configuration provider indicates that a configuration value will expire in the future.

      Type:string
      Default:restart
      Valid Values:[none, restart]
      Importance:low
    • transforms

      Aliases for the transformations to be applied to records.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:non-null string, unique transformation aliases
      Importance:low
    • predicates

      Aliases for the predicates used by transformations.

      Type:list
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:non-null string, unique predicate aliases
      Importance:low
    • errors.retry.timeout

      The maximum duration in milliseconds that a failed operation will be reattempted. The default is 0, which means no retries will be attempted. Use -1 for infinite retries.

      Type:long
      Default:0
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.retry.delay.max.ms

      The maximum duration in milliseconds between consecutive retry attempts. Jitter will be added to the delay once this limit is reached to prevent thundering herd issues.

      Type:long
      Default:60000 (1 minute)
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.tolerance

      Behavior for tolerating errors during connector operation. ‘none’ is the default value and signals that any error will result in an immediate connector task failure; ‘all’ changes the behavior to skip over problematic records.

      Type:string
      Default:none
      Valid Values:[none, all]
      Importance:medium
    • errors.log.enable

      If true, write each error and the details of the failed operation and problematic record to the Connect application log. This is ‘false’ by default, so that only errors that are not tolerated are reported.

      Type:boolean
      Default:false
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.log.include.messages

      Whether to the include in the log the Connect record that resulted in a failure. This is ‘false’ by default, which will prevent record keys, values, and headers from being written to log files, although some information such as topic and partition number will still be logged.

      Type:boolean
      Default:false
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.deadletterqueue.topic.name

      The name of the topic to be used as the dead letter queue (DLQ) for messages that result in an error when processed by this sink connector, or its transformations or converters. The topic name is blank by default, which means that no messages are to be recorded in the DLQ.

      Type:string
      Default:“”
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium
    • errors.deadletterqueue.topic.replication.factor

      Type:short
      Default:3
      Valid Values:
      Importance:medium