Kafka is a high-throughput and low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds that you can use as input for event strategies in Pega Platform™. Kafka data sets are characterized by high performance and horizontal scalability in terms of event and message queues. Kafka data sets can be partitioned to enable load distribution across the cluster.

This overview covers the following topics:

• Best practices for Stream service configuration
• Communication between Kafka and Pega Platform
• Kafka configuration options
• Kafka operations
• Kafka standard deployment
• Kafka with Charlatan
• Monitoring Kafka
• Troubleshooting Kafka