David Mollitor created KAFKA-9369: ------------------------------------- Summary: Allow Consumers and Producers to Connect with User-Agent String Key: KAFKA-9369 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9369 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: David Mollitor
Given the adhoc nature of consumers and producers in Kafka, it can be difficult to track where connections to brokers and partitions are coming from. Please allow consumers and producers to pass an optional _user-agent_ string during the connection process so that they can quickly and accurately be identified. For example, if I am performing an upgrade on my consumers, I want to be able to see that no consumers with an older version number of the consuming software still exist or if I see an application that is configured to consumer from the wrong consumer group, they can quickly be identified and removed. [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent] -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)