Kafka MCP Server

Kafka MCP Server

Enables interaction with Apache Kafka topics, allowing users to publish messages to and read messages from Kafka instances through natural language.

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Kafka MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server implementation for Apache Kafka. Enabling MCP client to interact with topics hosted in a Kafka instance.

Running locally with the Claude desktop app

Manual Installation

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json file:
  • On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  • On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
    "mcpServers": {
      "kafka": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
            "--directory",
            "/path/to/repo/mcp-kafka",
            "run",
            "mcp-server-kafka",
            "--kafka-bootstrap-servers",
            "<comma_separated_bootstrap_servers ex. localhost:9092,otherhost:9092>",
            # Add other Kafka connection arguments as needed (e.g., security protocol, SASL mechanism, username, password)
            # Example for SASL_SSL:
            # "--kafka-security-protocol", "SASL_SSL",
            # "--kafka-sasl-mechanism", "PLAIN",
            # "--kafka-sasl-plain-username", "<your_username>",
            # "--kafka-sasl-plain-password", "<your_password>"
        ]
      }
    }
}
  1. Install and open the Claude desktop app.
  2. Try asking Claude to do a read/write operation of some sort to confirm the setup (e.g. ask it to publish a message to a topic or read messages from a topic). If there are issues, use the Debugging tools provided in the MCP documentation here.

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