# Apache Kafka

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-kafka/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. It provides a REST Proxy API, Kafka Connect REST API, and AsyncAPI for event streaming.

## Kin Score — 44.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 58.6 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 37.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (12)

- **Apache Kafka Messaging API** — The core Kafka messaging protocol for producing and consuming records to/from topics using the native Kafka binary protocol, supporting exactly-once semantics, compaction, and p...
- **Apache Kafka ACL API** — The ACL API from Apache Kafka — 1 operation(s) for acl.
- **Apache Kafka Broker API** — The Broker API from Apache Kafka — 1 operation(s) for broker.
- **Apache Kafka Cluster API** — The Cluster API from Apache Kafka — 3 operation(s) for cluster.
- **Apache Kafka Connectors API** — The Connectors API from Apache Kafka — 8 operation(s) for connectors.
- **Apache Kafka Consumer Group API** — The Consumer Group API from Apache Kafka — 2 operation(s) for consumer group.
- **Apache Kafka Offsets API** — The Offsets API from Apache Kafka — 1 operation(s) for offsets.
- **Apache Kafka Partition API** — The Partition API from Apache Kafka — 1 operation(s) for partition.
- **Apache Kafka Plugins API** — The Plugins API from Apache Kafka — 2 operation(s) for plugins.
- **Apache Kafka Records API** — The Records API from Apache Kafka — 1 operation(s) for records.
- **Apache Kafka Tasks API** — The Tasks API from Apache Kafka — 3 operation(s) for tasks.
- **Apache Kafka Topic API** — The Topic API from Apache Kafka — 2 operation(s) for topic.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Apache Kafka MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Kafka Agentic Access** — 34 operations · 16 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Apache Kafka Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Kafka Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Kafka Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Event-Driven Architecture** — Build event-driven microservices with reliable message delivery.
- **Data Pipeline** — Move data between systems at scale with exactly-once delivery guarantees.
- **Real-Time Analytics** — Process and analyze event streams in real time with Kafka Streams.
- **Log Aggregation** — Centralize application and infrastructure logs for analysis and alerting.
- **CDC (Change Data Capture)** — Capture database changes and stream them to data warehouses and caches.

## Tags

Distributed Systems, Event Streaming, Messaging, Open-Source, Pub-Sub

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-kafka/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.