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Delivering data from Yandex Managed Service for Apache Kafka® using Yandex Data Transfer

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Updated at September 30, 2025

A Yandex StoreDoc cluster can ingest data from Apache Kafka® topics in real time.

To run data delivery:

  1. Prepare the test data.
  2. Set up and activate the transfer.
  3. Test your transfer.

If you no longer need the resources you created, delete them.

The support cost includes:

  • Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster fee: Covers the use of computational resources allocated to hosts (including ZooKeeper hosts) and disk storage (see Apache Kafka® pricing).
  • Yandex StoreDoc cluster fee: using computing resources allocated to hosts and disk space (see Yandex StoreDoc pricing).
  • Fee for public IP addresses if public access is enabled for cluster hosts (see Virtual Private Cloud pricing).
  • Per-transfer fee: using computing resources and the number of transferred data rows (see Data Transfer pricing).

Getting started

  1. Set up your data pipeline infrastructure:

    1. Create a Managed Service for Apache Kafka® source cluster with any suitable configuration. Enable public access to the cluster during creation so you can connect to it from your local machine. Connections from within the Yandex Cloud network are enabled by default.

    2. In the source cluster, create a topic named sensors.

    3. In the source cluster, create a user named mkf-user with the ACCESS_ROLE_PRODUCER and ACCESS_ROLE_CONSUMER permissions for the new topic.

    4. Create a target Yandex StoreDoc cluster with any suitable configuration, using the following settings:

      • Database name: db1.
      • Username: mmg-user.
      • In the same availability zone as the source cluster.
      • To connect to the cluster from the user's local machine instead of the Yandex Cloud cloud network, enable public access to the cluster hosts.

    5. To connect to the cluster from the user's local machine, configure security groups:

    1. If you do not have Terraform yet, install it.

    2. Get the authentication credentials. You can add them to environment variables or specify them later in the provider configuration file.

    3. Configure and initialize a provider. There is no need to create a provider configuration file manually, you can download it.

    4. Place the configuration file in a separate working directory and specify the parameter values. If you did not add the authentication credentials to environment variables, specify them in the configuration file.

    5. Download the data-transfer-mkf-mmg.tf configuration file to the same working directory.

      This file describes:

      • Network.
      • Subnet.
      • Security group and rules allowing inbound connections to the Managed Service for Apache Kafka® and Yandex StoreDoc clusters.
      • Managed Service for Apache Kafka® source cluster.
      • Apache Kafka® topic named sensors.
      • Apache Kafka® user named mkf-user with the ACCESS_ROLE_PRODUCER and ACCESS_ROLE_CONSUMER access permissions to the sensors topic.
      • Yandex StoreDoc target cluster.
      • Yandex StoreDoc database named db1.
      • Yandex StoreDoc user named mmg-user with the readWrite access permissions for the db1 database.
      • Transfer.

    6. In the data-transfer-mkf-mmg.tf file, specify these variables:

      • source_kf_version: Apache Kafka® version in the source cluster.
      • source_user_password: mkf-user password in the source cluster.
      • target_mg_version: Yandex StoreDoc version in the target cluster.
      • target_user_password: mmg-user password in the target cluster.
      • transfer_enabled: Set to 0 to ensure that no transfer is created until you create endpoints manually.

    7. Make sure the Terraform configuration files are correct using this command:

      terraform validate

      Terraform will display any configuration errors detected in your files.

    8. Create the required infrastructure:

      1. Run this command to view the planned changes:

        terraform plan

        If you described the configuration correctly, the terminal will display a list of the resources to update and their parameters. This is a verification step that does not apply changes to your resources.

      2. If everything looks correct, apply the changes:

        1. Run this command:

          terraform apply

        2. Confirm updating the resources.

        3. Wait for the operation to complete.

      All the required resources will be created in the specified folder. You can check resource availability and their settings in the management console.

  2. Install the following tools:

Prepare the test data

Let's assume the Apache Kafka® sensors topic in the source cluster receives data from car sensors in JSON format.

Create a local sample.json file with the following test data:

sample.json
{
    "device_id": "iv9a94th6rzt********",
    "datetime": "2020-06-05 17:27:00",
    "latitude": 55.70329032,
    "longitude": 37.65472196,
    "altitude": 427.5,
    "speed": 0,
    "battery_voltage": 23.5,
    "cabin_temperature": 17,
    "fuel_level": null
}
{
    "device_id": "rhibbh3y08qm********",
    "datetime": "2020-06-06 09:49:54",
    "latitude": 55.71294467,
    "longitude": 37.66542005,
    "altitude": 429.13,
    "speed": 55.5,
    "battery_voltage": null,
    "cabin_temperature": 18,
    "fuel_level": 32
}
{
    "device_id": "iv9a94th6rzt********",
    "datetime": "2020-06-07 15:00:10",
    "latitude": 55.70985913,
    "longitude": 37.62141918,
    "altitude": 417.0,
    "speed": 15.7,
    "battery_voltage": 10.3,
    "cabin_temperature": 17,
    "fuel_level": null
}

Set up and activate the transfer

  1. Create an endpoint for the Apache Kafka® source:

    Endpoint parameters:

    • Connection settings:

      • Connection type: Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster.

        • Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster: Select the source cluster from the list.

        • Authentication: SASL.

          • Username: mkf-user.
          • Password: Enter the user password.

      • Topic full name: sensors.

    • Advanced settings → Conversion rules:

      • Conversion rules: json.

        • Data scheme: JSON specification.

          Insert the data schema in JSON format:

          json
          [
    {
        "name": "device_id",
        "type": "utf8",
        "key": true
    },
    {
        "name": "datetime",
        "type": "utf8"
    },
    {
        "name": "latitude",
        "type": "double"
    },
    {
        "name": "longitude",
        "type": "double"
    },
    {
        "name": "altitude",
        "type": "double"
    },
    {
        "name": "speed",
        "type": "double"
    },
    {
        "name": "battery_voltage",
        "type": "double"
    },
    {
        "name": "cabin_temperature",
        "type": "uint16"
    },
    {
        "name": "fuel_level",
        "type": "uint16"
    }
]

  2. Create an endpoint for the MongoDB target:

    Endpoint parameters:

    • Connection settings:

      • Connection type: Yandex StoreDoc cluster.

        • Yandex StoreDoc cluster: Select the source cluster from the list.

      • Authentication source: db1.

      • User: mmg-user.

      • Password: Enter the user password.

    • Database: db1.

  3. Create a transfer:

    1. Create a transfer of the Replication type that will use the created endpoints.
    2. Activate the transfer and wait for its status to change to Replicating.

    1. In the data-transfer-mkf-mmg.tf file, specify these variables:

      • source_endpoint_id: ID of the source endpoint.
      • target_endpoint_id: ID of the target endpoint.
      • transfer_enabled: 1 to create a transfer.

    2. Make sure the Terraform configuration files are correct using this command:

      terraform validate

      Terraform will display any configuration errors detected in your files.

    3. Create the required infrastructure:

      1. Run this command to view the planned changes:

        terraform plan

        If you described the configuration correctly, the terminal will display a list of the resources to update and their parameters. This is a verification step that does not apply changes to your resources.

      2. If everything looks correct, apply the changes:

        1. Run this command:

          terraform apply

        2. Confirm updating the resources.

        3. Wait for the operation to complete.

    4. The transfer will activate automatically upon creation. Wait for its status to change to Replicating.

Test your transfer

Make sure the data from the topic in the source Managed Service for Apache Kafka® cluster is being moved to the Yandex StoreDoc cluster:

  1. Send data from sample.json to the Managed Service for Apache Kafka® sensors topic using jq and kafkacat:

    jq -rc . sample.json | kafkacat -P \
   -b <broker_host_FQDN>:9091 \
   -t sensors \
   -k key \
   -X security.protocol=SASL_SSL \
   -X sasl.mechanisms=SCRAM-SHA-512 \
   -X sasl.username="mkf-user" \
   -X sasl.password="<user_password_in_source_cluster>" \
   -X ssl.ca.location=/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/Yandex/YandexInternalRootCA.crt -Z

    To learn more about setting up an SSL certificate and using kafkacat, see Connecting to a Apache Kafka® cluster from applications.

  2. Make sure that the Yandex StoreDoc cluster's sensors collection contains the data that was sent:

    1. Connect to the Yandex StoreDoc cluster.

    2. Get the contents of the sensors collection using the query below:

      db.sensors.find()

Delete the resources you created

Note

Before deleting the resources, deactivate the transfer.

Some resources are not free of charge. To avoid paying for them, delete the resources you no longer need:

  1. Delete the transfer.
  2. Delete the source and target endpoints.

Delete other resources using the same method used for their creation:

  1. In the terminal window, go to the directory containing the infrastructure plan.

    Warning

    Make sure the directory has no Terraform manifests with the resources you want to keep. Terraform deletes all resources that were created using the manifests in the current directory.

  2. Delete resources:

    1. Run this command:

      terraform destroy

    2. Confirm deleting the resources and wait for the operation to complete.

    All the resources described in the Terraform manifests will be deleted.

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