About Connections

One of the first steps in incorporating Decodable to your existing data ecosystem is by creating connections in Decodable to get data in from a data source or send data out to a data destination. Decodable includes connectors that provide read and write support for a variety of data sources and destinations including AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Snowflake, and more. To allow Decodable to access your data, you must configure a connection that contains your credentials for the data source and destination.

After creating a connection to your data source or destination, activate it to start streaming data to or from the Decodable platform. A connection to a data source is also known as a source connection and a connection to a data destination is also known as a sink connection.

Decodable creates network connections to the resources you specify in connections. As a result, things like hostnames must be resolvable, and IP addresses must be routable. See Decodable IP Addresses if you want to connect to a third-party service that requires explicit whitelisting to enable external access. Let us know if you need help managing connectivity to your data infrastructure.

For instructions on how to create a connection to a specific data source or destination, refer to the topic in the Connect to a data source or Connect to a data destination chapters that correspond to the data location that you are interested in.