---
title: "How to Integrate Existing Systems with Kafka Connect"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-integrate-existing-systems-with-kafka-connect-ilqrzxdex
source_url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-integrate-existing-systems-with-kafka-connect
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-05-13T09:11:54.711Z
updated: 2024-05-13T09:11:54.065Z
tags: ["kafka", "mysql", "elk"]
reading_time: 13
upvotes: 7
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Integrate Existing Systems with Kafka Connect

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 13 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to integrate existing systems with Kafka Connect and ingest data from various sources such as files and a MySQL database into Kafka. Also, learn how to export data from Kafka to Elasticsearch for indexing.

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Tags: [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql), [#elk](https://daily.dev/tags/elk)

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