Hi, Thanks for the review.
> nit: you are going to fill in an actual value below in your PR, right ? > private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; > > We normally set the serialVersionUID = 1L in Kafka exception classes. In Motivation, please mention the IllegalStateException scenario. > IllegalStateException mentioned in the JIRA is specific to user implementaion. Main issue is we wont get response form the server. In this case, admin client times out the requests.
