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Alan Braithwaite commented on KAFKA-2678: ----------------------------------------- Isn't it more accurate for it to be negative? You're basically saying that the lag is ahead of the committed offset. Coming from a user, I'd rather let it have a negative number and explain it in the documentation then just saying the lag is 0. > partition level lag metrics can be negative > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2678 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2678 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1 > Reporter: Jun Rao > Assignee: Dong Lin > Fix For: 0.9.0.0 > > > Currently, the per partition level lag metric can be negative since the last > committed offset can be smaller than the follower's offset. This is a bit > confusing to end users. We probably should lower bound it by 0. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)