Which integrations are available for this server?

Enables interaction with [Apache Kafka](/mcp/servers/integrations/apache-kafka) topics, allowing read and write operations such as publishing messages to topics and consuming messages from topics in a Kafka instance.

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

Clone this repository.
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>" ] } } }

Install and open the Claude desktop app.
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.