Kinesis Producer

Supported pipeline types:

  • Data Collector

  • Data Collector Edge
The Kinesis Producer destination writes data to Amazon Kinesis Streams. The destination can also send responses to a microservice origin when used in a microservice pipeline. For information about supported versions, see Supported Systems and VersionsSupported Systems and Versions in the Data Collector documentation.

To write data to an Amazon Kinesis Firehose delivery system, use the Kinesis Firehose destination. To write data to Amazon S3, use the Amazon S3 destination.

When you configure Kinesis Producer, you specify the Amazon Web Services connection information for your Kinesis cluster and the data format to use. You can also configure any additional Kinesis configuration properties that you require.

You can also use a connectionconnection to configure the destination.

When you want the destination to send responses to a microservice origin within a microservice pipeline, you specify the type of response to send.

Kinesis Producer writes data using the following Kinesis requirements:
  • Writes a maximum of 500 messages and 4.5 MB in a batch.
  • Allows a maximum of 50 kb/message. Larger messages are sent to the stage for error handling.