Getting Started with the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka and MongoDB | Confluent

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This post introduces the official MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka, developed and supported by MongoDB engineers and verified by Confluent. It details how this connector can be used as both a source (streaming data from MongoDB to Kafka topics using change streams with filtering) and a sink (streaming data from Kafka topics to MongoDB). The post provides installation instructions, configuration examples for both source and sink scenarios using Kafka Connect, and demonstrates testing with `kafkacat`. It highlights the use of MongoDB change streams for real-time event generation and the propagation of data from Kafka to MongoDB collections.