How to Use Kafka Connect with Vultr Managed Apache Kafka®

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

A tool for integrating Apache Kafka with external systems through connectors for data import and export

Kafka Connect is a key component that enables scalable and reliable data integration in Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® cluster. You can use Kafka Connect to move data in and out of topics in a Vultr Managed Apache Kafka®, providing an efficient way to integrate multiple applications such as databases, Object Storage, and Elasticsearch in your cluster.

Follow this guide to enable Kafka Connect in Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® and create new connectors using the Vultr Console, Vultr API, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and click Databases.
Click your target Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® cluster to open its management page.
Navigate to the Kafka Connect tab.
Verify the list of available connectors compatible with your cluster.
Choose your desired connector type:
- Sink: Read data from Kafka topics and push the data to external sources such as search indexes, batch systems and databases for processsing.
- Source: Pull data from external sources and publish the data to specific Kafka topics in the cluster.
Click Add Connector.
Specify the connector label and specify the topics to link in your cluster.
Modify the default Config JSON parameters to include the connector information, such as:
- Destination details.
- Output format.
- Queries.
- Protocols.
- Size specifications.
- Maximum timeout and retry information.
Remove any unused optional properties in the connector configuration.
Click Add Connector to create the connector.
Verify the list of active connectors in the cluster.
Click Connector Status to monitor the connector status.
- Verify the Connector State information.
- Click Refresh Status to refresh the connector information.
- Click Restart Connector to restart it.
- Click Pause Connector to pause the configuration.
- Click Resume Connector to resume a paused connector.
Click Edit Connector to modify the connector information.
Click Delete Connector to delete the connector.

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