Glossary
Short definitions for every term used throughout these docs.
- Pipeline
- A named, versioned workflow that moves data from a source connector, through optional transforms, to a destination connector.
- Connector
- A pre-built integration to an external system — a source, a destination, or both.
- Event
- The atomic unit of data moving through a pipeline, or a platform lifecycle notification like
pipeline.failed. - Webhook
- An outbound HTTP request KMP sends to a URL you control when a subscribed event occurs.
- Dead-letter queue
- Where an event goes after exhausting its retries, rather than being dropped. See Handling errors & retries.
- Cursor pagination
- The pagination style used by every v2 list endpoint. See Rate limits.
- Workspace
- The top-level account boundary an API key is scoped to.