## Set up Redpanda Kafka

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/apps/connectors/messaging/redpanda-kafka/how-tos/set-up-redpanda-kafka

> Atlan supports the [S3 extraction method](/apps/connectors/messaging/on-premises-event-buses/how-tos/set-up-on-premises-kafka-access) for fetching metadata from Redpanda Kafka. This method uses Atlan's kafka-extractor tool to fetch metadata.

:::warning Who can do this?
 You will probably need your [Redpanda Kafka administrator](https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/manage/security/console/authorization/#roles) to complete these steps - you may not have access yourself.

:::

Atlan supports the [S3 extraction method](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/redpanda-kafka/set-up-on-premises-kafka-access/llms.txt) for fetching metadata from Redpanda Kafka. This method uses Atlan's kafka-extractor tool to fetch metadata.

## Create user in Redpanda Kafka

To [create a new user](https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/manage/security/authorization/) for [extracting metadata from Redpanda Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/redpanda-kafka/set-up-on-premises-kafka-access/llms.txt):

1. Log in to your [Redpanda Console](https://console.aiven.io/) and select your active cluster.
2. From the left menu of your cluster's _Overview_ page, click the **Security** tab.
3. From the upper right of the _Security_ page, click **Create User** to create a new user.
4. In the _Create User_ dialog, enter the following details: 
 1. For _Username_, enter a name for the new user - for example, `Atlan integration`.
 2. For _Password_, set a password for the new user.
 3. From the _Mechanism_ dropdown, select a [SCRAM mechanism](https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/manage/security/authentication/#saslscram).
 4. Click **Create** to finish creating the new user.
5. From the list of users on the _Security_ page, select the newly created user to edit the [associated Access Control Lists (ACLs)](https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/21.11/security/acls/#operations).
6. In the _Edit ACL_ dialog, enter the following details:
 1. For _Topics_, click **Add Topic ACL** to allow the following operations - `Describe` and `DescribeConfigs`.
 2. For _Consumer Groups_, click **Add Consumer Group ACL** to allow the following operation - `Describe`.
 3. For _Transactional ID_, click **Add Transactional ID ACL** to allow the following operation - `Describe`.
 4. For _Clusters_, click **Add Cluster ACL** to allow the following operations - `Describe` and `DescribeConfigs`.
 5. Once you have added all the required operations, click **OK** to finish setup.

:::info **Did you know?** 
 Once you have [extracted metadata on-premises](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/redpanda-kafka/set-up-on-premises-kafka-access/llms.txt) and [uploaded the results to S3](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/redpanda-kafka/crawl-on-premises-kafka/llms.txt), you can [crawl the metadata from Redpanda Kafka](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/redpanda-kafka/crawl-redpanda-kafka/llms.txt) into Atlan.

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