Manage and Edit Connections

You can use the Connections page to add, edit, or delete your connections. Use this page to get a high-level view of the status of all of the connections in your account. You can also view additional details about specific connections, such as the amount of data that it is receiving and what streams are connected to it, by selecting the connection name.

Edit a connection

1. Navigate to the Connections page.

2. On the Connections page, select the row that corresponds to the connection that you want to edit. The detailed page for the connection opens.

3. If the connection is running, stop the connection. You cannot edit a running connection.

4. Update the connection as desired.

   1. Select Schema to update the schema of records that are flowing through this connection. Remember that the connection schema must match the schema of the stream that it is sending data to. You can also use this page to update the field(s) used as a primary or partition key, or update a field that's enabled as a watermark.
   2. Select Details to update the configuration of a connection.
   3. Select Save when you are done.

5. Select Start to resume the connection. A modal appears with some additional configuration.

   Configuration options for source connections:

   1. Task Size: The amount of resources, such as how much CPU or Memory, to allocate for streaming data.
   2. Task Count: The number of connection workers that perform data collection or processing.
   3. Discard State: Choose whether you want to discard state. By selecting this option, you are reactivating the connection without attempting to restore state from a save point or checkpoint. This means that once the connection is activated, data ingestion resumes based on the configuration of the connector.
      1. If you are using a connector where you can configure where to start data ingestion and you want data ingestion to start from the earliest offset, you must select this option.
         Note: When supported, where to resume data ingestion when a source connection is activated is configured in the connection itself. For example, for the Confluent Cloud connector, you select where you want data ingestion to start by configuring the connector's Scan Startup Mode field.

   Configuration options for sink connections:

   1. Task Size: The amount of resources, such as how much CPU or Memory, to allocate for streaming data.
   2. Task Count: The number of connection workers that perform data collection or processing.
   3. Discard State: Choose whether you want to discard state.
      1. Note: If you want to start data ingestion from the earliest offset, you must select this option.
   4. Earliest / Latest: Where to resume data ingestion when a sink connection is activated. Select Earliest to start processing data from the earliest record available or Latest to start processing data from the latest record available.