datahub/metadata-ingestion/docs/sources/kafka-connect

Integration Details

This plugin extracts the following:

• Source and Sink Connectors in Kafka Connect as Data Pipelines
• For Source connectors - Data Jobs to represent lineage information between source dataset to Kafka topic per {connector_name}:{source_dataset} combination
• For Sink connectors - Data Jobs to represent lineage information between Kafka topic to destination dataset per {connector_name}:{topic} combination

Concept Mapping

This ingestion source maps the following Source System Concepts to DataHub Concepts:

Source Concept	DataHub Concept	Notes
"kafka-connect"	Data Platform
Connector	DataFlow
Kafka Topic	Dataset

Current limitations

Works only for

• Source connectors: JDBC, Debezium, Mongo and Generic connectors with user-defined lineage graph
• Sink connectors: BigQuery