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