I would like to initiate the voting process for KIP-124: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-124+-+Request+rate+quotas
The KIP proposes to add request processing time quota to limit CPU utilization at *<client-id>*, *<user>* or *<user, client-id>* levels similar to the current bandwidth limiting quotas. The quota takes into account the total time spent by the user/client on request handler and network threads within a quota window. Quota will be configured as a per-thread percentage value, which typically indicates the percentage of CPU cores allocated to the user/client. The discussion thread is here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/46c7bbc8f381ebe718b3cce6ed8bdf3745df22b0bd88020d70c99813@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E Many thanks to everyone for the feedback and suggestions so far. Regards, Rajini