Google PubSub is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples services that produce events from services that process events. You can use Google PubSub as a messaging-oriented middleware or for event ingestion and delivery for streaming analytics pipelines. Google PubSub offers durable message storage and real-time message delivery with high availability and consistent performance at scale. You can run Google PubSub servers in all the available Google Cloud regions around the world.

Before you use Google PubSub connector, you must ensure that you meet the following prerequisites:

Your organization has the Google PubSub Connector license.
You have a Google service account JSON key to access Google PubSub.
You have the client_email, client_id, and private_key values for the Google service account. You need these details when you create a Google PubSub connection in Administrator.

In a

streaming ingestion

task, you can use a Google PubSub target to publish to messages to a Google PubSub topic.