What's Included
The Conncentric Essentials distribution includes a set of official plugins. Which plugins are active in your deployment depends on the installer.plugins settings in your Helm values, configured by your DevOps team during deployment.
Included Plugins
The Essentials distribution ships with the following plugins:
| Plugin | What it provides |
|---|---|
| Essentials | Common pipeline components (field mapping, filtering, header injection, message routing), the Performance Traffic Generator for benchmarking, and debug utilities |
| FIX | FIX protocol session management: initiator/acceptor modes, heartbeats, sequence numbers, gap fills, reconnects, session monitoring, and message logging |
| Kafka | Consumer and producer connectivity to Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Redpanda (see supported brokers) |
Your DevOps team selects which of these plugins to enable during deployment. The connector types and pipeline components available in the Portal correspond to the plugins that are enabled. If you don't see a connector type you expect, check with your DevOps team.
For detailed documentation on each plugin, see Official Plugins.
Custom Plugins and Bundles
Beyond the official plugins, your team can extend the platform with:
- Custom plugins built with the Plugin SDK: custom processors, transformers, and connectors for proprietary protocols or business logic.
- Custom bundles deployed via Helm: pre-configured adapter definitions, plugins, and artifacts packaged as
.zipfiles. See Custom Bundles & Extensibility.
Custom bundles are applied after the base distribution during the two-pass install, layered on top of the official plugins.