# Confluent Kafka

Integrate, catalog, and govern Confluent Kafka assets in Atlan.

## Required permissions

- [Preflight checks for Confluent Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/preflight-checks-for-confluent-kafka/llms.txt): Before running the Confluent Kafka crawler, run preflight checks to perform necessary technical validations.

## Setup options

- [Set up Confluent Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/set-up-confluent-kafka/llms.txt): Atlan supports the API authentication method for fetching metadata from Confluent Kafka. This method uses an API key and API secret to fetch metadata.

## Crawl and mine

- [Crawl Confluent Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/crawl-confluent-kafka/llms.txt): Learn about crawl confluent kafka.

## Reference

- [Set up on-premises Kafka access](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/set-up-on-premises-kafka-access/llms.txt): In some cases you won't be able to expose your Kafka instance for Atlan to crawl and ingest metadata. For example, this may happen when security requirements restrict access to sensitive, mission-critical data.
- [Crawl on-premises Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/crawl-on-premises-kafka/llms.txt): Extract metadata from on-premises Kafka to catalog topics, partitions, and consumer groups. Discover and govern your Kafka messaging infrastructure after configuring extractor tool.
- [How Atlan connects to Confluent Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/how-atlan-connects-to-confluent-kafka/llms.txt): Understand how Atlan securely connects to your Confluent Kafka cluster to extract metadata.
- [What does Atlan crawl from Confluent Kafka?](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-confluent-kafka/llms.txt): During a Confluent Kafka crawl, Atlan extracts metadata for Clusters, Topics, Consumer Groups, Schema Subjects, Schema Versions, and Schema Fields. Reference tables map each Confluent Kafka property to its Atlan asset.
- [Confluent Kafka assets package](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/package-reference/llms.txt): Programmatically crawl and manage Confluent Kafka assets in Atlan using the Python SDK (pyatlan). Reference for the Confluent Kafka assets package.
- [Confluent Kafka assets app](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/confluent-kafka/app-reference/llms.txt): Learn how to crawl Confluent Kafka topics and publish them to Atlan for discovery.