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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
