Getting TimeoutException instead of TopicAuthorizationException while using security SASL_PLAINTEXT

Hi All, I am using 0.11 Kafka version and trying out an SASL_PLAINTEXT mechanism for Authentication and Authorization. I have configured Broker and Zookeeper as well Client with necessary configurations with help of following links https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_sasl_plain

Requires suggestions for Producer request throttling

Hi Team, We are having a Kafka cluster with multiple Topics in it and shared with multiple services(clients). Each service will have multiple events source from where they will be pushing messages to Kafka brokers. Once a service starts producing message at a high rate, it will affect other s