This plugin consumes messages from Confluent Cloud Kafka topics and makes them available through HTTP endpoints. For more information, see the Confluent Cloud documentation.
Note: This plugin has the following known limitations:
- Message compression is not supported.
- The message format is not customizable.
- Kong Gateway does not support Kafka 4.0.
Kong also provides a plugin for publishing messages to Confluent Cloud.
The plugin supports two modes of operation:
http-get: Consume messages via an HTTP GET requests (default)server-sent-events: Stream messages using server-sent events
When running multiple Data Plane nodes, there is no thread-safe behavior between nodes. In high-load scenarios, you may observe the same message being delivered multiple times across different Data Plane nodes
To minimize duplicate message delivery in a multi-node setup, consider: