# CloudEvents Kafka Protocol Binding

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-kafka-binding/  
**Provider:** CloudEvents — https://apis.io/providers/cloudevents/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.2/cloudevents/bindings/kafka-protocol-binding.md

CloudEvents Kafka Protocol Binding is one of 12 APIs that [CloudEvents](https://apis.io/providers/cloudevents/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Kafka, Messaging, and Protocol Binding. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Kafka protocol binding for CloudEvents defines how events are mapped to Apache Kafka messages. It specifies how CloudEvents attributes are encoded as Kafka message headers and how the event payload is placed in the Kafka message value, enabling standardized event interchange over Kafka topics.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.2/cloudevents/bindings/kafka-protocol-binding.md
- **Reference** — https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/main/cloudevents/bindings/kafka-protocol-binding.md

## Other CloudEvents APIs (11)

- [CloudEvents Specification](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-spec/)
- [CloudEvents HTTP Protocol Binding](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-http-binding/)
- [CloudEvents AMQP Protocol Binding](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-amqp-binding/)
- [CloudEvents MQTT Protocol Binding](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-mqtt-binding/)
- [CloudEvents NATS Protocol Binding](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-nats-binding/)
- [CloudEvents SQL (CESQL)](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-cesql/)
- [CloudEvents Go SDK](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-sdk-go/)
- [CloudEvents JavaScript SDK](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-sdk-javascript/)
- [CloudEvents Java SDK](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-sdk-java/)
- [CloudEvents Python SDK](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-sdk-python/)
- [CloudEvents Subscriptions API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudevents/cloudevents-subscriptions-api/)

## Tags

Kafka, Messaging, Protocol Binding

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