Create a ClickPipe via the ClickHouse Cloud API from Kafka, Kinesis, object storage, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, or Pub/Sub, then poll until it is running
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Documented steps
Authenticate with HTTP Basic auth (key ID as username, key secret as password). Auth and rate limits: https://clickhouse.com/docs/cloud/manage/openapi ; source and destination field reference: https://clickhouse.com/docs/integrations/clickpipes
Resolve IDs: GET /v1/organizations for organizationId, then GET /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services for the serviceId of a running target service.
Recommended for Kafka and Kinesis: discover the source schema first with POST /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipes/schemaDiscovery and a body of {"source":{"kafka":{...}}} or {"source":{"kinesis":{...}}}. The response's inferred {name, type} field list is what you build destination.columns and fieldMappings from.
Build the create body: {"name":..., "source":{<exactly one of> kafka|objectStorage|kinesis|pubsub|postgres|mysql|bigquery|mongodb}, "destination":{...}, "fieldMappings":[...], "scaling":{...}, "settings":{...}}. Only one source key may be present.
Set source.type where the family supports it: kafka type is one of kafka|redpanda|msk|gcmk|confluent|warpstream|azureeventhub|dokafka; objectStorage is s3|gcs|dospaces|azureblobstorage|cloudflarer2|ovhobjectstorage; postgres is postgres|supabase|neon|alloydb|planetscale|rdspostgres|aurorapostgres|cloudsqlpostgres|azurepostgres|crunchybridge|tigerdata; mysql is mysql|rdsmysql|auroramysql|mariadb|rdsmariadb. Kinesis, Pub/Sub, MongoDB, and BigQuery have no type selector.
Match the credentials block to the declared authentication method, sourcing every value from a secret manager: username and password for PLAIN auth; accessKeyId and secretKey for Kafka IAM_USER and Kinesis IAM auth; certificate and privateKey for MUTUAL_TLS; connectionString for Azure Event Hubs; a base64-encoded service-account JSON for BigQuery and Pub/Sub.
For Kafka, Kinesis, object storage, and Pub/Sub set destination as {"database":..., "table":..., "managedTable":..., "columns":[{"name":...,"type":...}]}. Database CDC sources (Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB) instead use their own tableMappings array and omit destination.table and destination.columns.
Set fieldMappings as [{"sourceField":...,"destinationField":...}] covering every destination column - an uncovered column is rejected.
POST it: curl --user "$KEY_ID:$KEY_SECRET" -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' https://api.clickhouse.cloud/v1/organizations/$ORG_ID/services/$SERVICE_ID/clickpipes -d @create_pipe.json
Read the returned id (clickPipeId) and initial state, then poll GET /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipes/{clickPipeId} every 5-10 seconds. Streaming and object-storage pipes go Provisioning to Running (or Completed for a one-shot load); database CDC pipes go Provisioning to Setup to Snapshot to Running.
Stop polling at Running (or Completed). Treat Failed or InternalError as terminal and read the response detail before retrying; back off on throttling since the limit is 10 requests per 10 seconds per key.
Known gotchas
`source` behaves as a oneOf: setting more than one of kafka/objectStorage/kinesis/pubsub/postgres/mysql/bigquery/mongodb - or none - is rejected.
The credentials shape must match the chosen authentication enum exactly. IAM_ROLE expects a role ARN rather than a credentials block; IAM_USER expects accessKeyId and secretKey. Mismatches fail validation, not at runtime.
Some sources are in beta or limited preview and may need enabling for your organization before creation succeeds.
Object storage fields interact: skipInitialLoad is only valid alongside queueUrl, and startAfter cannot be combined with skipInitialLoad.
destination.table and destination.columns are required for every pipe type EXCEPT the database CDC ones, which use tableMappings. Mixing the two shapes is a common validation failure.
Tight polling on GET /clickpipes/{id} will hit the 10-requests-per-10-seconds limit - add exponential backoff.
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