How We’re Making Connect Integration More Flexible, Efficient, and Secure

In the latter half of 2025, Confluent's Connect team made significant enhancements to its Kafka connectors, focusing on flexibility, efficiency, and manageability across its portfolio. Key platform-level innovations include AI-assisted troubleshooting, expanded metric visibility, and specialized migration tooling, which together aim to streamline Kafka operations and enhance the robustness of streaming data architectures. The Debezium family of connectors saw expanded configuration options to improve user experience, while fully managed connectors benefited from new configurations and support for custom SMTs. Enhancements also extended to specific connectors, such as Oracle XStream and MongoDB, with improvements in security features like PEM-based authentication and support for TLS. Other notable upgrades include enhanced functionality for Salesforce, HTTP, and file storage connectors, as well as heightened resilience in IBM MQ and Snowflake connectors. Confluent's advancements are designed to provide seamless integration and migration capabilities, offering more flexible resource management and improved data compatibility across its managed services.