---
title: "Publishing Events to VAST Event Broker"
slug: "publishing-events-to-vast-event-broker"
tags: ["5.4", "Event-Broker"]
updated: 2026-10-28T01:54:48Z
published: 2026-10-28T01:54:48Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/publishing-events-to-vast-event-broker"
---

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# Publishing Events to VAST Event Broker

VAST Event Broker collects events occurring to elements in VAST Element Store into Kafka event topics. VAST Event Broker is based on the VAST Database which allows consumers to query event topics via the various database APIs.

VAST Event Broker utilizes VAST proprietary implementation of the Kafka protocol, as detailed in [Kafka Protocol Support](/docs-5-4/docs/kafka-protocol-support).

The workflow is as follows:

1. [Configure](/docs-5-4/docs/configuring-vast-event-broker) the view that exposes the elements for which events are to be published to enable the Kafka protocol.
2. Create event topics [using VAST VMS](/docs-5-4/docs/managing-event-topics) or [with a Kafka client](/docs-5-4/docs/managing-topics-producing-and-consuming-events-with-a-kafka-client).
3. [Run](/docs-5-4/docs/managing-topics-producing-and-consuming-events-with-a-kafka-client) S3 workload on the cluster to get the topics filled with events.
4. Query events from VAST Event Broker topics [with a Kafka client](/docs-5-4/docs/managing-topics-producing-and-consuming-events-with-a-kafka-client) or [using a VAST Database connector](/docs-5-4/docs/querying-events-from-topics-using-vast-database-connectors).
5. [Monitor](/docs-5-4/docs/monitoring-kafka-performance-with-vast-analytics) event traffic with VAST analytics.
6. [Protect](/docs-5-4/docs/data-protection-capabilities-for-event-topics) event topics with VAST snapshots, global snapshot clones, and asynchronous replication