diff --git a/app-config.yaml b/app-config.yaml
index 71c3310713..02afb8ac41 100644
--- a/app-config.yaml
+++ b/app-config.yaml
@@ -372,3 +372,8 @@ homepage:
       timezone: 'Asia/Tokyo'
 pagerduty:
   eventsBaseUrl: 'https://events.pagerduty.com/v2'
+
+kafka:
+  clientId: backstage
+  brokers:
+    - localhost:9092