diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b921df4ee..81d357cb5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -289,6 +289,26 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.core/jersey-client -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
+            <version>3.1.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
+            <version>2.0.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
+            <version>3.1.0</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/connect-api -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/ClickHouseSinkConnectorExtension.java b/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/ClickHouseSinkConnectorExtension.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d34b382aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/ClickHouseSinkConnectorExtension.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.altinity.clickhouse.sink.connector.rest;
+
+import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.AppInfoParser;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.rest.ConnectRestExtension;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.rest.ConnectRestExtensionContext;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class ClickHouseSinkConnectorExtension implements ConnectRestExtension {
+    private Map<String, ?> configs;
+
+    @Override
+    public void register(ConnectRestExtensionContext restPluginContext) {
+        restPluginContext.configurable().register(new SinkConnectorPauseResource(configs, restPluginContext.clusterState()));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs) {
+        this.configs = configs;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String version() {
+        return AppInfoParser.getVersion();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/SinkConnectorPauseResource.java b/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/SinkConnectorPauseResource.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..45c4a0805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/altinity/clickhouse/sink/connector/rest/SinkConnectorPauseResource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.altinity.clickhouse.sink.connector.rest;
+
+
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.health.ConnectClusterState;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+@Path("/connect")
+class SinkConnectorPauseResource {
+    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SinkConnectorPauseResource.class);
+
+    public SinkConnectorPauseResource(Map<String, ?> configs, ConnectClusterState clusterState) {
+        //initialize resource
+    }
+
+    @Path("/pause")
+    public void pauseConnector() {
+
+        log.info("PAUSE connector message received");
+    }
+
+    @Path("/resume")
+    public void resumeConnector() {
+
+        log.info("RESUME connector message received");
+
+    }
+}
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