Configuring Kafka Servers

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	Kafka broker/host combination delimited by comma, e.g. kafka-1.us-east-1.myapp.com:9093,kafka-2.us-east-1.myapp.com:9093
Events	Shows if the server is configured to receive event notifications.
SCTE-35	Shows if the server is configured to receive SCTE-35 messages.
*Actions*
Test	Enables you to verify the connection between ZEN Master and Kafka.
Edit	Enables you to edit the Kafka configuration.
Delete	Deletes the Kafka configuration.