Jun 5, 2020

How to list and create Kafka topics using the REST Proxy API

In v5.5 of Confluent Platform the REST Proxy added new Admin API capabilities, including functionality to list, and create, topics on your cluster.

Check out the docs here and download Confluent Platform here. The REST proxy is Confluent Community Licenced.

May 2, 2019

Reading Kafka Connect Offsets via the REST Proxy

When you run Kafka Connect in distributed mode it uses a Kafka topic to store the offset information for each connector. Because it’s just a Kafka topic, you can read that information using any consumer.

Mar 8, 2019

Using httpie with the Kafka REST Proxy

This shows how to use httpie with the Confluent REST Proxy.

Send data

echo '{"records":[{"value":{"foo":"bar"}}]}' | \
  http POST http://localhost:8082/topics/jsontest \
  Content-Type:application/vnd.kafka.json.v2+json Accept:application/vnd.kafka.v2+json