I am using java client and kafka 0.8.2, since events are corrupted in kafka broker i cant read and replay them again.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sunil, > > The messages in Kafka has a CRC stored with each of them. When consumer > receives a message, it will compute the CRC from the message bytes and > compare it to the stored CRC. If the computed CRC and stored CRC does not > match, that indicates the message has corrupted. I am not sure in your case > why the message is corrupted. Corrupted message seems to be pretty rare > because the broker actually validate the CRC before it stores the messages > on to the disk. > > Is this problem reproduceable? If so, can you find out the messages that > are corrupted? Also, are you using the Java clients or some other clients? > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:28 PM, sunil kalva <kalva.ka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > can some one help me out here. > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:36 PM, sunil kalva <kalva.ka...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > I am seeing few messages getting corrupted in kafka, It is not > happening > > > frequently and percentage is also very very less (less than 0.1%). > > > > > > Basically i am publishing thrift events in byte array format to kafka > > > topics(with out encoding like base64), and i also see more events than > i > > > publish (i confirm this by looking at the offset for that topic). > > > For example if i publish 100 events and i see 110 as offset for that > > topic > > > (since it is in production i could not get exact messages which causing > > > this problem, and we will only realize this problem when we consume > > because > > > our thrift deserialization fails). > > > > > > So my question is, is there any magic byte which actually determines > the > > > boundary of the message which is same as the byte i am sending or or > for > > > any n/w issues messages get chopped and stores as one message to > multiple > > > messages on server side ? > > > > > > tx > > > SunilKalva > > > > > >