# Managed Kafka Connect Kafka® Connecton the Instaclustr managed platform ================================================= Seamlessly integrate your data streams with Instaclustr’s fully managed Kafka Connect service [Understand Kafka Connect](/blog/apache-kafka-connect-architecture-overview/) [Request demo](/schedule-a-demo/) ![Kafka product hero image texture](https://www.instaclustr.com/wp-content/uploads/product-texture-logo-kafka.webp) Available on-prem and cloud platforms ![AWS logo](https://www.instaclustr.com/wp-content/uploads/aws-color-logo.svg) ![Microsoft Azure logo](https://www.instaclustr.com/wp-content/uploads/ms-azure-logo-1.svg) ![Google Cloud logo](https://www.instaclustr.com/wp-content/uploads/google-cloud-color-logo.svg) What isKafka Connect? --------------------- Kafka Connect is an open source framework and distributed data integration tool that simplifies the process of connecting external systems with Apache Kafka, a high-throughput distributed messaging system. It serves as a scalable and fault-tolerant solution for capturing data from various sources (such as databases, file systems, and messaging systems) and efficiently streaming them into Kafka topics or vice versa. Kafka Connect provides a plugin-based architecture, allowing developers to easily extend its functionality and integrate with different connectors for specific data sources or syncs. These attributes make it a powerful tool for building data pipelines and enabling data-driven applications. Meet Instaclustr for Kafka Connect ---------------------------------- We customize and optimize your Kafka Connect deployment so you can focus on the unique features of your applications rather than the data infrastructure. Data available for stream processing will flow seamlessly via Kafka Connect from data sources and syncs into your open source Apache Kafka instance. [Get Your Apache Camel™ Kafka Connectors in a row](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/get-your-apache-camel-kafka-connectors-in-a-row/) - Fully managed and hosted, 100% open source + - Bring your own cloud or ours - 24×7 support - SOC2, ISO27001 and ISO27018 Certified - PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliant - Built in monitoring - Provision via Console, API or Terraform provider - 99.99% SLA + We provide a 99.99% availability SLA for production clusters of Kafka Connect. - Robust architecture + For reliability, Kafka Connect is best run in distributed mode as a cluster. We deploy and manage a robust cluster with bundled connectors so you can quickly take your event-driven architecture to the next level. - Bundled connectors + Bundled with our Kafka Connect are connectors to allow you to easily and seamless make use of our other open-source managed techs (for Cassandra, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, etc) as well as hyperscaler storage (S3 Source and Sinks) with more coming soon. - Custom connectors + As well as the bundled connectors, you can deploy your own custom developed connectors, connectors from the open source ecosystem, or connectors that you have licensed. We can also build the custom connectors you require. - Managed mirroring + Instaclustr offers Managed Mirroring via MirrorMaker 2 to mirror data between geographical regions, create active/active topologies, or create an additional copy of your data in another region with a failover cluster. Our Technical Operations team takes full, end to end, responsibility for the availability of the mirroring service. See our support documentation for how to set up mirroring. Downloaddatasheet ![https://www.instaclustr.com/wp-content/uploads/down-arrow-download.svg]() Learn more about how you can seamlessly integrate your data streams with Instaclustr's fully managed Kafka Connect service [Download](/resources/managed-kafka-connect-datasheet/) Eliminate the burden of self-managed Kafka Connect -------------------------------------------------- Instaclustr allows you to reliably and robustly deploy Kafka Connect. Your Managed Kafka Connect instance will integrate with Managed Apache Kafka in a clustered configuration with high fault tolerance and the ability to prevent node failure. The ecosystem of pre-built connectors available with Kafka Connect makes it easy for you to get data from the relevant sync connector and source connector in the form that you require. [Find the right plan](/pricing/) #### See why our managed platformIs built for your enterprise - Industry leading availability SLAs - Management console with automated provisioning, configuration and built-in monitoring capabilities - DevOps-friendly API access: - Provisioning via REST API or Terraform - Monitoring via Prometheus API or REST-based integrations to common monitoring platforms - 24x7x365 monitoring and expert support - Continuous maintenance and version upgrades - Meets GDPR, SOC2, ISO27001 and ISO27018 requirements, and offers PCI-compliant solutions - Run in cloud or on-premises, your account or ours Simplify the connection of your external systems to Apache Kafka ---------------------------------------------------------------- Experience the power of optimized data management with managed Kafka Connect. Focus on core operations while we automate and scale your infrastructure - [ Event driven architecture ](#panel-1-1) - [ Scale without penalty ](#panel-1-2) - [ Unify your data layer ](#panel-1-3) - [ Development speed ](#panel-1-4) Event driven architecture Scale without penalty Unify your data layer Development speed ### Event driven architecture Kafka Connect enables a fast, event-driven architecture to robustly allow data flow between multiple services. ### Scale without penalty Deploying Kafka Connect as a distributed cluster means it can scale with your workloads without impacting your Kafka performance. ### Unify your data layer Use connectors to make sure data is reaching your analytics and search stack at the same time it’s pushed to other parts of your infrastructure. ### Development speed Easy to use connectors and a clean REST API make Kafka Connect a fast way to build robust event-driven architectures. Recommended resources --------------------- [ Blog Scaling Apache Kafka® Connect Streaming Data Processing (Pipeline Series Part 5) In Part 4 of this blog series, we started exploring Kafka Connector task scalability by configuring a new scalable load generator... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/scaling-kafka-connect-streaming-data-processing-pipeline-series-part-5/) [ Blog Streaming JSON Data Into PostgreSQL® Using Open Source Apache Kafka Sink Connectors (... Having explored one fork in the path (Elasticsearch and Kibana) in the previous pipeline blog series, in this blog we backtrack to... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/kafka-postgres-connector-pipeline-series-part-6/) [ Blog Change Data Capture (CDC) With Kafka® Connect and the Debezium PostgreSQL® Source ... Modern event-based/streaming distributed systems embrace the idea that change is inevitable, and actually desirable! Without being... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/change-data-capture-cdc-with-kafka-connect-and-the-debezium-postgresql-source-connector/) Spin up aKafka ConnectCluster in minutes ---------------------------------------- It takes just a few clicks before you can start to deploy new nodes and monitor your clusters through a simple dashboard. [ Free trial ](https://console2.instaclustr.com/signup?_gl=1*1k2zy1u*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MzE5NTY4MDYuQ2owS0NRaUE2T3U1QmhDckFSSXNBUG9UeHJDVTg2aUJTU1J3d0lXbVNrcHJuazNYTWxDV1lmUURqalpEaWk1NW9qWFowbWx5allvWW1Zc2FBbjMzRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTY2Njk2NTU2Ny4xNzMxNTMzNzk0*_ga*MTAzMTQ5NDA5Ni4xNzE0NTg3NDQ3*_ga_4NBQSJMP6D*MTczMjIwNDEyNC40Ni4xLjE3MzIyMTIwODYuNjAuMC4w&_ga=2.34178085.508926894.1732118661-1031494096.1714587447&_gac=1.216569060.1731956806.Cj0KCQiA6Ou5BhCrARIsAPoTxrCU86iBSSRwwIWmSkprnk3XMlCWYfQDjjZDii55ojXZ0mlyjYoYmYsaAn33EALw_wcB)