Socializing your Kafka event sources

Event Endpoint Management provides the functionality to describe and catalog your Kafka topics as event sources, and to share the details of the topics with application developers within the organization.

Application developers can discover the event source and configure their applications to subscribe to the stream of events, providing self-service access to the message content from the event stream.

Access to the event sources are managed by the Event Gateway. The Event Gateway handles the incoming requests from applications to use a topic’s stream of events. The Event Gateway is independent of your Kafka clusters, making access control to topics possible without requiring any changes to your Kafka cluster configuration.

For more information about socializing your event sources, see the Event Endpoint Management documentation.