Bumping On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 12:45 PM, Amrit Gupta <guptamrit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Philip, > > >> the latency measures the time difference between the *time the > request was created* and the response received > >> I believe it is *between the time send() was called*, and the time > the producer receives the response from the broker. > > I believe this is not right as if we see > <https://developer.confluent.io/learn-kafka/architecture/producer-hands-on/?_ga=2.143024061.907256740.1667543050-19124442.1666163656&_gac=1.54193882.1667550950.CjwKCAjw8JKbBhBYEiwAs3sxN21FphL9sHjqJWmlOYnVw9d474r-z9r8Hs1b3B5YbyYdxBOgrBxIORoCY-AQAvD_BwE#:~:text=1406.273-,request%2Dlatency%2Davg,-43.292> > : > [image: image.png] > > >> the producer doesn't immediately transmit the sends when send() is > called, the requests can be batched depending on your configuration. > > if it was like the way you mentioned, then it implies it includes the > producer buffer time also as you mentioned then *request-latency-avg* > should be *always greater* than *request-queue-time-avg. *But as per the > results above we can see in multiple cases, it is actually vice-versa. > > > Please add more thoughts to this and let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > T >
