diff --git a/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md b/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5dc90f9b80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/healthy-crabs-collect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-kafka-backend': patch
+---
+
+Internal tweak to adapt to `kafkajs` 2.2.3
diff --git a/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts b/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
index 1fb9701334..f5ffd6b6c7 100644
--- a/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
+++ b/plugins/kafka-backend/src/types/types.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,19 @@ export interface ClusterDetails {
 
 export type SslConfig = ConnectionOptions | boolean;
 
-export type SaslConfig = {
-  mechanism: 'plain' | 'scram-sha-256' | 'scram-sha-512';
-  username: string;
-  password: string;
-};
+export type SaslConfig =
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'plain';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    }
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'scram-sha-256';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    }
+  | {
+      mechanism: 'scram-sha-512';
+      username: string;
+      password: string;
+    };
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 7ef7dc368d..5b27b1094b 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -26408,9 +26408,9 @@ __metadata:
   linkType: hard
 
 "kafkajs@npm:^2.0.0":
-  version: 2.1.0
-  resolution: "kafkajs@npm:2.1.0"
-  checksum: b751b06f8005ac9ff192d98306f59c6ae018ce09acc0f959dfbfd4fbb4731fe7dfd42de0c3592d45a6b66b6d5caa40926673a02eb764b701c2953ea203ced60c
+  version: 2.2.3
+  resolution: "kafkajs@npm:2.2.3"
+  checksum: 30f17de75da852942334b6069c5c515e2531a7b610997f0e4c6088281f16588df45ac920218411d9ae995c09af1f69186ed4d73cbe0e5f1247ec756dd9c7678e
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard