diff --git a/artifacts/logdna-splunk-integration/connect-distrubuted.properties b/artifacts/logdna-splunk-integration/connect-distrubuted.properties
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--- a/artifacts/logdna-splunk-integration/connect-distrubuted.properties
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+##
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+##
 
+# This file contains some of the configurations for the Kafka Connect distributed worker. This file is intended
+# to be used with the examples, and some settings may differ from those used in a production system, especially
+# the `bootstrap.servers` and those specifying replication factors.
+
+# A list of host/port pairs to use for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.
+bootstrap.servers=<enter broker urls comma separated without quotes>
+security.protocol=SASL_SSL
+sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
+sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="token" password="<apikey>";
+
+consumer.security.protocol=SASL_SSL
+consumer.sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
+consumer.sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="token" password="<apikey>";
+
+producer.security.protocol=SASL_SSL
+producer.sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
+producer.sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="token" password="<apikey>";
+
+plugin.path=/Users/bkadambi/Documents/software/kafka/connectors
+
+
+# The converters specify the format of data in Kafka and how to translate it into Connect data. Every Connect user will
+# need to configure these based on the format they want their data in when loaded from or stored into Kafka
+# key.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
+# value.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
+key.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter
+value.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter
+# Converter-specific settings can be passed in by prefixing the Converter's setting with the converter we want to apply
+# it to
+key.converter.schemas.enable=false
+value.converter.schemas.enable=false
+
+group.id=kafka-connect-splunk-hec-sink
+config.storage.topic=__kafka-connect-splunk-task-configs
+config.storage.replication.factor=3
+
+offset.storage.topic=__kafka-connect-splunk-offsets
+offset.storage.replication.factor=3
+offset.storage.partitions=25
+
+status.storage.topic=__kafka-connect-splunk-statuses
+status.storage.replication.factor=3
+status.storage.partitions=5
+
+# Flush much faster than normal, which is useful for testing/debugging
+offset.flush.interval.ms=10000
+rest.advertised.host.name=localhost