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Andrew Stein commented on KAFKA-1037: ------------------------------------- This is a severe issue AFAIK. It took three of us three days to track down why our kafka messages were disappearing. At a minimum, if one cannot revert easily to "gzip" or "none" for compression, this should be logged as an ERROR. > switching to gzip compression no error message for missing snappy jar on > classpath > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1037 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1037 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Joe Stein > Labels: noob > > seems to be swallowed by not setting the log4j.properties but shows up when > this and setting to DEBUG -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)