Migrating Apache Flume Flows to Apache NiFi: Kafka Source to HTTP REST Sink and HTTP REST Source to Kafka Sink

Migrating Apache Flume Flows to Apache NiFi:  Kafka Source to HTTP REST Sink and HTTP REST Source to Kafka Sink


This is a simple use case of being a gateway between REST API and Kafka.   We can do a lot more than that in NiFi.  We can be a Kafka Consumer and Producer as well as POST REST calls and receive any REST calls on configurable ports.  All with No Code.

NiFi can act as a listener for HTTP Requests and provide HTTP Responses in a scriptable full Web Server mechanism with JETTY.   Or it can listen for HTTP REST calls on a port and route those files anywhere. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/Parsing-Web-Pages-for-Images-with-Apache-NiFi/ta-p/248415 .  We can also do websockets https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/An-Example-WebSocket-Application-in-Apache-NiFi-1-1/ta-p/248598.  https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/Accessing-Feeds-from-EtherDelta-on-Trades-Funds-Buys-and/ta-p/248316

It is extremely easy to do this in NiFi.




Kafka Consumer to REST POST



HTTP REST to Kafka Producer




Full Monitoring on Apache NiFi






A Very Common Use Case:  Ingesting Stock Feeds From REST to Kafka



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