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Elastic Confluence connector referenceedit

The Elastic Confluence connector is a connector for Atlassian Confluence. This connector is written in Python using the Elastic connector framework.

View the source code for this connector (branch 8.13, compatible with Elastic 8.13).

Native connector (Elastic Cloud)edit

View native connector reference

Availability and prerequisitesedit

This connector is available as a native connector on Elastic Cloud, as of 8.9.1.

Confluence Data Center support was added in 8.13.0 in technical preview and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Technical preview features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

To use this connector natively in Elastic Cloud, satisfy all native connector requirements.

Create a Confluence connectoredit

Use the UIedit

To create a new Confluence connector:

Navigate to the Search → Connectors page in the Kibana UI.
Follow the instructions to create a new native Confluence connector.

For additional operations, see Using connectors.

Use the APIedit

You can use the Elasticsearch Create connector API to create a new native Confluence connector.

For example:

PUT _connector/<my-confluence-connector>
{
  "index_name": "<my-elasticsearch-index>",
  "name": "Content synced from Confluence",
  "service_type": "confluence",
  "is_native": "true"
}

You’ll also need to create an API key for the connector to use.

The user needs the cluster privileges manage_api_key and write_connector_secrets to generate API keys programmatically.

To create an API key for the connector:

Run the following command, replacing values where indicated. Note the id and encoded return values from the response:

POST /_security/api_key
{
  "name": "<connector_name>-connector-api-key",
  "role_descriptors": {
    "<connector_name>-connector-role": {
      "cluster": [
        "monitor"
      ],
      "indices": [
        {
          "names": [
            "<index_name>",
            ".search-acl-filter-<index_name>",
            ".elastic-connectors-v1*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "all"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Use the encoded value to store a connector secret, and note the id return value from this response:
```
POST _connector/_secret
{
  "value": <encoded_api_key>
}
```

Use the API key id and the connector secret id to update the connector:

PUT /_connector/<connector_id>/_api_key_id
{
  "api_key_id": "<API key id>",
  "api_key_secret_id": "<secret id>"
}

Refer to the Elasticsearch API documentation for details of all available Connector APIs.

Usageedit

To use this connector as a native connector, see Native connectors (managed service).

For additional operations, see Using connectors.

Compatibilityedit

Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server/Data Center versions 7 or later.

Configurationedit

The following configuration fields are required to set up the connector:

Confluence data source

Dropdown to determine the Confluence platform type: Confluence Cloud, Confluence Server, or Confluence Data Center. Default value is Confluence Server.

Confluence Data Center username

The username of the account for Confluence Data Center.

Confluence Data Center password

The password of the account to be used for the Confluence Data Center.

Confluence Server username

The username of the account for Confluence server.

Confluence Server password

The password of the account to be used for Confluence Server.

Confluence Cloud account email

The account email for Confluence Cloud.

Confluence Cloud API token

The API Token to authenticate with Confluence cloud.

Confluence URL label

The domain where the Confluence is hosted. Examples:

https://192.158.1.38:8080/
https://test_user.atlassian.net/

Confluence space keys

Comma-separated list of Space Keys to fetch data from Confluence server or cloud. If the value is *, the connector will fetch data from all spaces present in the configured spaces. Default value is *. Examples:

EC, TP
*

Enable SSL

Whether SSL verification will be enabled. Default value is False.

SSL certificate

Content of SSL certificate. Note: If ssl_enabled is False, the value in this field is ignored. Example certificate:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIID+jCCAuKgAwIBAgIGAJJMzlxLMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMHoxCzAJBgNVBAYT
...
7RhLQyWn2u00L7/9Omw=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Enable document level security

Toggle to enable document level security (DLS).

DLS is only available for Atlassian Confluence Cloud.

+ When enabled, full syncs will fetch access control lists for each document and store them in the _allow_access_control field. Access control syncs will fetch users' access control lists and store them in a separate index.

To access user data in Jira Administration, the account you created must be granted Product Access for Jira Administration. This access needs to be provided by an administrator from the Atlassian Admin, and the access level granted should be Product Admin.

Documents and syncsedit

The connector syncs the following Confluence object types:

Pages
Spaces
Blog Posts
Attachments

Files bigger than 10 MB won’t be extracted
Permissions are not synced by default. You must first enable DLS. Otherwise, all documents indexed to an Elastic deployment will be visible to all users with access to that Elastic Deployment.

Sync typesedit

Full syncs are supported by default for all connectors.

This connector also supports incremental syncs, but this feature is currently disabled by default. Refer to the linked documentation for enabling incremental syncs.

Sync rulesedit

Basic sync rules are identical for all connectors and are available by default.

This connector supports advanced sync rules for remote filtering. These rules cover complex query-and-filter scenarios that cannot be expressed with <basic sync rules. Advanced sync rules are defined through a source-specific DSL JSON snippet.

Advanced sync rules examplesedit

Example 1: Query for indexing data that is in a particular Space with key DEV.

[
  {
    "query": "space = DEV"
  }
]

Example 2: Queries for indexing data based on created and lastmodified time.

[
  {
    "query": "created >= now('-5w')"
  },
  {
    "query": "lastmodified < startOfYear()"
  }
]

Example 3: Query for indexing only given types in a Space with key SD.

[
  {
    "query": "type in ('page', 'attachment') AND space.key = 'SD'"
  }
]

Syncing recently created/updated items in Confluence may be delayed when using advanced sync rules, because the search endpoint used for CQL queries returns stale results in the response. For more details refer to the following issue in the Confluence documentation.

Document level securityedit

DLS is only available for Atlassian Confluence Cloud.

Document level security (DLS) enables you to restrict access to documents based on a user’s permissions. Refer to configuration on this page for how to enable DLS for this connector.

Refer to DLS in Search Applications to learn how to ingest data from a connector with DLS enabled, when building a search application. The example uses SharePoint Online as the data source, but the same steps apply to every connector.

Content Extractionedit

See Content extraction.

Known issuesedit

There are currently no known issues for this connector. Refer to Known issues for a list of known issues for all connectors.

Troubleshootingedit

See Troubleshooting.

Securityedit

See Security.

Connector client (self-managed)edit

View connector client reference

Availability and prerequisitesedit

This connector is available as a connector client using the Elastic connector framework. This connector client is compatible with Elastic versions 8.7.0+.

To use this connector, satisfy all connector client requirements.

Create a Confluence connectoredit

Use the UIedit

To create a new Confluence connector:

Navigate to the Search → Connectors page in the Kibana UI.
Follow the instructions to create a new Confluence connector client.

For additional operations, see Using connectors.

Use the APIedit

You can use the Elasticsearch Create connector API to create a new self-managed Confluence connector client.

For example:

PUT _connector/my-confluence-connector
{
  "index_name": "my-elasticsearch-index",
  "name": "Content synced from Confluence",
  "service_type": "confluence"
}

You’ll also need to create an API key for the connector to use.

The user needs the cluster privileges manage_api_key and write_connector_secrets to generate API keys programmatically.

To create an API key for the connector:

Run the following command, replacing values where indicated. Note the encoded return values from the response:

POST /_security/api_key
{
  "name": "<connector_name>-connector-api-key",
  "role_descriptors": {
    "<connector_name>-connector-role": {
      "cluster": [
        "monitor"
      ],
      "indices": [
        {
          "names": [
            "<index_name>",
            ".search-acl-filter-<index_name>",
            ".elastic-connectors-v1*"
          ],
          "privileges": [
            "all"
          ],
          "allow_restricted_indices": false
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Update your config.yml file with the API key encoded value.

Refer to the Elasticsearch API documentation for details of all available Connector APIs.

Usageedit

To use this connector as a connector client, see Connector clients (self-managed) For additional usage operations, see Using connectors.

Compatibilityedit

Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server/Data Center versions 7 or later

Configurationedit

When using the connector client workflow, initially these fields will use the default configuration set in the connector source code. These are set in the get_default_configuration function definition.

These configurable fields will be rendered with their respective labels in the Kibana UI. Once connected, you’ll be able to update these values in Kibana.

The following configuration fields are required to set up the connector:

data_source

Dropdown to determine the Confluence platform type: Confluence Cloud, Confluence Server, or Confluence Data Center. Default value is Confluence Server.

data_center_username

The username of the account for Confluence Data Center.

data_center_password

The password of the account to be used for the Confluence Data Center.

username

The username of the account for Confluence Server.

password

The password of the account to be used for the Confluence server.

account_email

The account email for the Confluence Cloud.

api_token

The API Token to authenticate with Confluence Cloud.

confluence_url

The domain where the Confluence instance is hosted. Examples:

https://192.158.1.38:8080/
https://test_user.atlassian.net/

spaces

Comma-separated list of Space Keys to fetch data from Confluence. If the value is *, the connector will fetch data from all spaces present in the configured spaces. Default value is *. Examples:

EC, TP
*

ssl_enabled

Whether SSL verification will be enabled. Default value is False.

ssl_ca

Content of SSL certificate. Note: If ssl_enabled is False, the value in this field is ignored. Example certificate:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIID+jCCAuKgAwIBAgIGAJJMzlxLMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMHoxCzAJBgNVBAYT
...
7RhLQyWn2u00L7/9Omw=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

retry_count

The number of retry attempts after failed request to Confluence. Default value is 3.

concurrent_downloads

The number of concurrent downloads for fetching the attachment content. This speeds up the content extraction of attachments. Defaults to 50.

use_document_level_security

Toggle to enable document level security (DLS). Only available for Atlassian Confluence Cloud. When enabled, full syncs will fetch access control lists for each document and store them in the _allow_access_control field. Access control syncs will fetch users' access control lists and store them in a separate index.

use_text_extraction_service

Toggle to enable the local text extraction service. Default value is False. Requires a separate deployment of the Elastic Text Extraction Service. Requires that ingest pipeline settings disable text extraction.

Deployment using Dockeredit

You can deploy the Confluence connector as a self-managed connector client using Docker. Follow these instructions.

Step 1: Download sample configuration file

Download the sample configuration file. You can either download it manually or run the following command:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/connectors/main/config.yml.example --output ~/connectors-config/config.yml

Remember to update the --output argument value if your directory name is different, or you want to use a different config file name.

Step 2: Update the configuration file for your self-managed connector

Update the configuration file with the following settings to match your environment:

elasticsearch.host
elasticsearch.api_key
connectors

If you’re running the connector service against a Dockerized version of Elasticsearch and Kibana, your config file will look like this:

# When connecting to your cloud deployment you should edit the host value
elasticsearch.host: http://host.docker.internal:9200
elasticsearch.api_key: <ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY>

connectors:
  -
    connector_id: <CONNECTOR_ID_FROM_KIBANA>
    service_type: confluence
    api_key: <CONNECTOR_API_KEY_FROM_KIBANA> # Optional. If not provided, the connector will use the elasticsearch.api_key instead

Using the elasticsearch.api_key is the recommended authentication method. However, you can also use elasticsearch.username and elasticsearch.password to authenticate with your Elasticsearch instance.

Note: You can change other default configurations by simply uncommenting specific settings in the configuration file and modifying their values.

Step 3: Run the Docker image

Run the Docker image with the Connector Service using the following command:

docker run \
-v ~/connectors-config:/config \
--network "elastic" \
--tty \
--rm \
docker.elastic.co/enterprise-search/elastic-connectors:8.13.2.0 \
/app/bin/elastic-ingest \
-c /config/config.yml

Refer to DOCKER.md in the elastic/connectors repo for more details.

Find all available Docker images in the official registry.

We also have a quickstart self-managed option using Docker Compose, so you can spin up all required services at once: Elasticsearch, Kibana, and the connectors service. Refer to this README in the elastic/connectors repo for more information.

Documents and syncsedit

The connector syncs the following Confluence object types:

Pages
Spaces
Blog Posts
Attachments

Content of files bigger than 10 MB won’t be extracted.
Permissions are not synced. All documents indexed to an Elastic deployment will be visible to all users with access to that Elastic Deployment.

Sync typesedit

Full syncs are supported by default for all connectors.

This connector also supports incremental syncs, but this feature is currently disabled by default. Refer to the linked documentation for enabling incremental syncs.

Sync rulesedit

Basic sync rules are identical for all connectors and are available by default.

Advanced sync rules examplesedit

Example 1: Query for indexing data that is in a particular Space with key DEV.

[
  {
    "query": "space = DEV"
  }
]

Example 2: Queries for indexing data based on created and lastmodified time.

[
  {
    "query": "created >= now('-5w')"
  },
  {
    "query": "lastmodified < startOfYear()"
  }
]

Example 3: Query for indexing only given types in a Space with key SD.

[
  {
    "query": "type in ('page', 'attachment') AND space.key = 'SD'"
  }
]

Document level securityedit

DLS is only available for Atlassian Confluence Cloud.

Document level security (DLS) enables you to restrict access to documents based on a user’s permissions. Refer to configuration on this page for how to enable DLS for this connector.

Content Extractionedit

See Content extraction.

Connector client operationsedit

End-to-end testingedit

The connector framework enables operators to run functional tests against a real data source. Refer to Connector testing for more details.

To perform E2E testing for the Confluence connector, run the following command:

$ make ftest NAME=confluence

For faster tests, add the DATA_SIZE=small flag:

make ftest NAME=confluence DATA_SIZE=small

Known issuesedit

There are currently no known issues for this connector. Refer to Known issues for a list of known issues for all connectors.

Troubleshootingedit

See Troubleshooting.

Securityedit

See Security.

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