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

1. Clone this repository.

2. 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",
            "",
            # 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", "",
            # "--kafka-sasl-plain-password", ""
        ]
      }
    }
}

4. Install and open the Claude desktop app.

5. 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.