ableegoldman commented on a change in pull request #8677: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8677#discussion_r426981901
########## File path: streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/internals/InternalTopicManager.java ########## @@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ public InternalTopicManager(final Admin adminClient, final StreamsConfig streams "This can happen if the Kafka cluster is temporary not available. " + "You can increase admin client config `retries` to be resilient against this error.", retries); log.error(timeoutAndRetryError); - throw new StreamsException(timeoutAndRetryError); + throw new TaskMigratedException("Time out for creating internal topics", new TimeoutException(timeoutAndRetryError)); Review comment: Good point.. what if we just call on the `FallbackPriorTaskAssignor` like we do when `listOffsets` fails, and then remove any tasks that involve internal topics we failed to create? And schedule the followup rebalance for "immediately" ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org