Kafka actions that produce Atlas entities
After the Kafka application is integrated with Atlas, entities are created in Atlas to represent the metadata.
The following table show a summary of the entities created in Atlas to represent the
metadata.
Atlas Entity | Description |
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Topic entities | Represents a Kafka topic |
Producer entity | Represents a Kafka producer client. Producers are identified by their client.id. |
Consumer entity | Represents a Kafka consumer client. Consumers are identified by their client.id. |
ConsumerGroup entity |
Represents a consumer group. Consumer groups are identified by their consumer group ID. |
Producer lineage entity | Artificial process type entity to support the lineage of producers. |
Consumer lineage entity | Artificial process type entity to support the lineage of consumers |