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Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that is highly scalable and secure, and it can:

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 If you want to send a message to Kafka, you can use a Kafka target in the process flow.

Perform the following steps to enable the Event Context Enabled property in a process flow:

  1. Select the Source service and then click View Properties option from the context pad menu. 
  2. In the Activity Properties panel, under the GENERAL tab, enable the Event Context Enabled property.
  3. Save the process flow.
  4. Activate the process flow. 

Once you save the process flow with this setting and activate it, you can choose it in the Process Flow Name field while creating a Kafka listener service.

Tip
Ensure that you have activated the Kafka listener service. Click here to know how to activate it. 

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  1. Select Kafka as a source application.
  2. In the Which event should trigger the data transfer? field, select New Message and click Next.
  3. In the Provide Kafka account information field, select the Kafka account and click Next.
  4. In the Kafka Settings page, follow the instructions from the step c through step i from the section Creating Kafka Listener.
  5. Click Next to complete the steps that follow to create the template. 

Publishing Kafka message to a Kafka server

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  1. Select Kafka as a destination application.
  2. In the Provide Kafka account information field, select the Kafka account and click Next.
  3. In the How the data should be delivered to destination? field, select Send Message and click Next.
  4. In the Kafka Settings page, follow the instructions from the step c through step i from the section Creating Kafka Target.
  5. Click Next to complete the steps that follow to create the template.