Launch Aspire (if it's not already running). See:
For details on using the Aspire Content Source Management page, please refer to the Admin UI.
Kafka Servers: The servers(s) to connect to, in <host>:<port> format. This can be a comma separated list of servers
e.g. first.server:9092,second.server:9092
Topic: The message stream to subscribe to.
Starting Offset for Full Crawls: Which messages to start fetching when starting a full crawl
Note: If certain partitions are not specified, Kafka will default to fetching the earliest message.
Now that the content source is set up, the crawl can be initiated.
During the crawl, you can do the following:
The status will show RUNNING while the crawl is going, and CRAWLED when it is finished.
If there are errors, you will get a clickable "Error" flag that will take you to a detailed error message page.
Note: For the Kafka connector, the behavior of the crawl is different between Incremental and Full crawls