ZEN Master can export event notifications and SCTE 35 messages to an Apache Kafka server. Kafka is a data streaming platform that allows you to publish and subscribe to streams of data, store them, and process them. ZEN Master is a “publisher” that uses the Kafka Producer API to send event data to a Kafka server. Once the event data from ZEN Master is streaming to a Kafka server, connectors are available to pull data from the Kafka server into third party applications and services including Elasticsearch, Splunk, Azure Event Hubs, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS S3, and more. To configure a Kafka server to receive event notifications from ZEN Master, see Sending Notifications to a Kafka server.
The following table describes the information shown in this section:
Parameter
Description
Name
The name of the Kafka server configuration.
Topic
The Topic created in the Kafka server where the notifications will go.
Servers
The hostname of the Kafka server.
Events
Shows if the server is configured to receive event notifications.
Actions
Test
Enables you to verify the connection between ZEN Master and Kafka.
