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Matthias J. Sax commented on KAFKA-6520: ---------------------------------------- [~harjitdotsingh] If you want to work on this ticket, it's your call to make a proposal :) If you want to make a full design before opening a PR, please prepare a design document (similar to a KIP and we can discuss it). Otherwise, you can also just open a PR and we discuss your proposal there during review. > When a Kafka Stream can't communicate with the server, it's Status stays > RUNNING > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-6520 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6520 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: streams > Reporter: Michael Kohout > Assignee: Milind Jain > Priority: Major > Labels: newbie, user-experience > > When you execute the following scenario the application is always in RUNNING > state > > 1)start kafka > 2)start app, app connects to kafka and starts processing > 3)kill kafka(stop docker container) > 4)the application doesn't give any indication that it's no longer > connected(Stream State is still RUNNING, and the uncaught exception handler > isn't invoked) > > > It would be useful if the Stream State had a DISCONNECTED status. > > See > [this|https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/confluent-platform/nQh2ohgdrIQ] > for a discussion from the google user forum. > [This|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4564] is a link to a > related issue. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)