Streaming data from Kafka to Elasticsearch - video walkthrough

Getting data from Kafka into Elasticsearch is easy with the Kafka Connect sink connector.

Check out this video tutorial on how to use the connector and a walk through some of the common requirements when using it including

• Updating and deleting documents in Elasticsearch
• Handling schemas and field mappings, including Timestamp fields
• Changing the name of the target index
• Error handling

🎥 Watch it here: https://rmoff.dev/kafka-elasticsearch-video

👾 You can also try it all out for yourself and follow along with the code using Docker at https://rmoff.dev/kafka-elasticsearch