# Confluent Kafka

Confluent Kafka is Confluent's distribution of Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Docker Hub.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/5986/confluent-kafka

## Description

Confluent Kafka is Confluent's distribution of Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It collects, stores, and routes large volumes of event data between producers and consumers with low latency and high fault tolerance, giving data teams and developers a reliable foundation for real-time workloads such as event processing, log aggregation, and data ingestion.

## Platform availability

Available on 0 of 6 install platforms.

## Health score

44/100 (Fair), based on 2 of 4 factors.
- Easy to install: 25 (0 install platforms, install notes, Docker image)
- Light to run: 70 (1 GB minimum RAM)

## Links

- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/antrea/confluentinc-kafka
- GitHub: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet

## Common questions

### What bootstrap server setting prevents a client from connecting to Kafka?

Set bootstrap.servers to the real Kafka broker address, usually host:9092. If the address is wrong, the client cannot reach Kafka and no messages are sent or received.

### What must every Kafka consumer include to avoid re-reading messages?

Set group.id for every consumer so Kafka can identify which messages have already been read. If it is missing, the consumer may fail to join the group or re-read messages.

### Can I self-host Kafka Connect while using a hosted Kafka cluster?

Yes, you can self-manage the Connect cluster while the backing Kafka cluster is Confluent Cloud. That leaves only the Connect cluster under your management.

### What Docker image error can occur during a Confluent Kafka install?

An install can fail with a no-such-image error for confluentinc/cp-kafka. Manually pulling the required Docker image can let the install complete.

## Alternatives

- Offset Explorer: Offset Explorer (formerly Kafka Tool) is a GUI application for managing and using Apache Kafka clusters.
- kafka: Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform designed to build real-time pipelines and can be used as a message broker or as a replacem…

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Source: Our Local Host (https://ourlocalhost.com/app/5986/confluent-kafka), the self-hosted and open-source app directory.