The Hermes Messaging Service architecture is built on the following components.

Table 1. Hermes Messaging Service components
Component Description
Hermes Message Queue A dedicated multi-tenant message queue in the ServiceNow Hermes Kafka cluster for managing the flow of data to and from the instance. The message queue uses certificate-based authentication that supports bi-directional traffic. The Hermes Message Queue is available to ServiceNow applications via the Hermes Glide API.
Hermes Gateway Part of the ServiceNow datacenter that enables you to connect to a ServiceNow endpoint to read and write data to the Hermes Message Queue.
Hermes Glide connector Connector that integrates instance functionality (for example, flows, data export, and data replication) with the Hermes Message Queue via the API.