The main challenge is doing this without exposing a bunch of internal
classes. I haven't seen a proposal that handles that aspect well so far.

Ismael

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 7:21 AM Sönke Liebau
<soenke.lie...@opencore.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I think that idea is worth looking at. As you say, if no interceptor is
> configured then the performance overhead should be negligible. Basically it
> is then up to the user to decide if he wants tomtake the performance hit.
> We should make sure to think about monitoring capabilities like time spent
> in the interceptor for records etc.
>
> The most obvious use case I think is server side schema validation, which
> Confluent are also offering as part of their commercial product, but other
> ideas come to mind as well.
>
> Best regards,
> Sönke
>
> Thomas Aley <thomas.a...@ibm.com> schrieb am Di., 3. Dez. 2019, 10:45:
>
> > Hi M. Manna,
> >
> > Thank you for your feedback, any and all thoughts on this are appreciated
> > from the community.
> >
> > I think it is important to distinguish that there are two parts to this.
> > One would be a server side interceptor framework and the other would be
> > the interceptor implementations themselves.
> >
> > The idea would be that the Interceptor framework manifests as a plug
> point
> > in the request/response paths that by itself has negligible performance
> > impact as without an interceptor registered in the framework it is
> > essentially a no-op. This way the out-the-box behavior of the Kafka
> broker
> > remains essentially unchanged, it is only if the cluster administrator
> > registers an interceptor into the framework that the path of a record is
> > intercepted. This is much like the already accepted and implemented
> client
> > interceptors - the capability exists and it is an opt-in feature.
> >
> > As with the client interceptors and indeed interception in general, the
> > interceptor implementations need to be thoughtfully crafted to ensure
> > minimal performance impact. Yes the interceptor framework could tap into
> > nearly everything but would only be tapping into the subset of APIs that
> > the user wishes to intercept for their use case.
> >
> > Tom Aley
> > thomas.a...@ibm.com
> >
> >
> >
> > From:   "M. Manna" <manme...@gmail.com>
> > To:     Kafka Users <us...@kafka.apache.org>
> > Cc:     dev@kafka.apache.org
> > Date:   02/12/2019 11:31
> > Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: Broker Interceptors
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 09:41, Thomas Aley <thomas.a...@ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Kafka community,
> > >
> > > I am hoping to get some feedback and thoughts about broker
> interceptors.
> > >
> > > KIP-42 Added Producer and Consumer interceptors which have provided
> > Kafka
> > > users the ability to collect client side metrics and trace the path of
> > > individual messages end-to-end.
> > >
> > > This KIP also mentioned "Adding message interceptor on the broker makes
> > a
> > > lot of sense, and will add more detail to monitoring. However, the
> > > proposal is to do it later in a separate KIP".
> > >
> > > One of the motivations for leading with client interceptors was to gain
> > > experience and see how useable they are before tackling the server side
> > > implementation which would ultimately "allow us to have a more
> > > complete/detailed message monitoring".
> > >
> > > Broker interceptors could also provide more value than just more
> > complete
> > > and detailed monitoring such as server side schema validation, so I am
> > > curious to learn if anyone in the community has progressed this work;
> > has
> > > ideas about other potential server side interceptor uses or has
> actually
> > > implemented something similar.
> > >
> >
> >  I personally feel that the cost here is the impact on performance. If I
> > am
> > right, this interceptor is going to tap into nearly everything. If you
> > have
> > strong guarantee (min.in.sync.replicas = N-1) then this may incur some
> > delay (and let's not forget inter broker comms protection by TLS config).
> > This may not be desirable for some systems. That said, it would be good
> to
> > know what others think about this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Tom Aley
> > > thomas.a...@ibm.com
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