Hey Guozhang, output was silent (since the log4j is streaming it to a log file) except for the stack trace landing in stdout, i'm assuming from the rethrow:
Exception in thread "StreamThread-9" org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SerializationException: Error serializing Avro message Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null of com.altvr.schema.jobs.RoomViewId in field source_view_id of com.altvr.schema.jobs.ViewBroadcastKey at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.npe(GenericDatumWriter.java:93) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:87) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:58) at io.confluent.kafka.serializers.AbstractKafkaAvroSerializer.serializeImpl(AbstractKafkaAvroSerializer.java:65) at io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer.serialize(KafkaAvroSerializer.java:61) at com.altvr.streams.serializers.SpecificKafkaAvroSerializer.serialize(SpecificKafkaAvroSerializer.java:27) at com.altvr.streams.serializers.SpecificKafkaAvroSerializer.serialize(SpecificKafkaAvroSerializer.java:10) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.StateSerdes.rawKey(StateSerdes.java:103) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.RocksDBStore.get(RocksDBStore.java:229) at org.apache.kafka.streams.state.internals.MeteredKeyValueStore.get(MeteredKeyValueStore.java:100) at com.altvr.streams.jobs.RoomOperationMessageProcessor.hasBegunBroadcastingRootViewToSpace(RoomOperationMessageProcessor.java:407) at com.altvr.streams.jobs.RoomOperationMessageProcessor.setupOrTeardownBroadcasts(RoomOperationMessageProcessor.java:377) at com.altvr.streams.jobs.RoomOperationMessageProcessor.forwardMessagesForBroadcasts(RoomOperationMessageProcessor.java:106) at com.altvr.streams.jobs.BroadcastPhotonMessages$1.transform(BroadcastPhotonMessages.java:193) at com.altvr.streams.jobs.BroadcastPhotonMessages$1.transform(BroadcastPhotonMessages.java:167) at org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.internals.KStreamTransform$KStreamTransformProcessor.process(KStreamTransform.java:57) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode.process(ProcessorNode.java:68) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.forward(StreamTask.java:338) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorContextImpl.forward(ProcessorContextImpl.java:187) at org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.internals.KStreamKTableLeftJoin$KStreamKTableLeftJoinProcessor.process(KStreamKTableLeftJoin.java:61) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode.process(ProcessorNode.java:68) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.forward(StreamTask.java:338) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorContextImpl.forward(ProcessorContextImpl.java:187) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.SourceNode.process(SourceNode.java:64) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.process(StreamTask.java:174) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:352) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:250) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.getField(GenericData.java:580) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.getField(GenericData.java:595) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeField(GenericDatumWriter.java:112) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeRecord(GenericDatumWriter.java:104) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:66) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeField(GenericDatumWriter.java:114) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeRecord(GenericDatumWriter.java:104) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:66) On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greg, > > Could you post the output from stdout when running the console as well? > > > Guozhang > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Greg Fodor <gfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We noticed that some errors were happening in one of our KafkaStreams >> jobs but they were not appearing in our logs or being sent to our >> error reporting service (Airbrake) -- they only became visible on >> stdout when running from the console. I believe the reason is because >> of this explicit catch-rethrow of KafkaExceptions in the main run loop >> of the StreamThread: >> >> >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/internals/StreamThread.java#L219 >> >> What's the proper way for these exceptions to be getting logged? The >> comment indicates they should be getting logged but they are not being >> processed by our loggers in log4j.properties. Here is our properties >> file: >> >> https://gist.github.com/gfodor/7d9a2102bde5f2dc062ead4e9551e670 >> >> Thanks! >> > > > > -- > -- Guozhang