In the absence of additional feedback on this KIP I'd like to start a vote.
To summarize, the KIP simply proposes to add a consumer metric to track the size of raw (uncompressed) fetched messages. The KIP can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-264%3A+Add+a+consumer+metric+to+record+raw+fetch+size Thanks. --Vahid