diff --git a/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/configuration/signalling.adoc b/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/configuration/signalling.adoc index 465846c77..dc72c1610 100644 --- a/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/configuration/signalling.adoc +++ b/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/configuration/signalling.adoc @@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ endif::community[] [NOTE] ==== -To use Kafka signaling to trigger ad hoc incremental snapshots for a connector, you must first xref:debezium-signaling-enabling-source-signaling-channel[enable a `source` signaling channel] in the connector configuration. +To use Kafka signaling to trigger ad hoc incremental snapshots for most connectors, you must first xref:debezium-signaling-enabling-source-signaling-channel[enable a `source` signaling channel] in the connector configuration. The source channel implements a watermarking mechanism to deduplicate events that might be captured by an incremental snapshot and then captured again after streaming resumes. -An exception is MySQL with GTIDs and read only mode, the `source` channel in this case is not required for incremental snapshot. See {link-prefix}:{link-mysql-connector}#mysql-read-only-incremental-snapshots[MySQL read only incremental snapshot] +Enabling the source channel is not required when using any of others available signaling channels to trigger an incremental snapshot of a read-only MySQL database with {link-prefix}:link-mysql-connector}#enable-mysql-gtids[GTIDs enabled]. +For more information, see {link-prefix}:{link-mysql-connector}#mysql-read-only-incremental-snapshots[MySQL read only incremental snapshot] ==== === Message format diff --git a/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/connectors/mysql.adoc b/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/connectors/mysql.adoc index 524181da8..ba9dfba1c 100644 --- a/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/connectors/mysql.adoc +++ b/documentation/modules/ROOT/pages/connectors/mysql.adoc @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ you must set one of the following options: ==== Ad hoc read-only incremental snapshots -When the MySQL connection is read-only, you can use any of the {link-prefix}:{link-signalling}#overview[available signaling channels] without the requirement to use the `source` channel. +When the MySQL connection is read-only, you can use any of the {link-prefix}:{link-signalling}#sending-signals-to-a-debezium-connector[available signaling channels] without the requirement to use the `source` channel. // Type: continue [id="mysql-snapshot-events"]