bug in documentation?

2013-11-29 Thread Dan Hoffman
*'Not that partitioning means Kafka only provides a total order over messages within a partition. This combined with the ability to partition data by key is sufficient for the vast majority of applications. However, if you require a total order over messages this can be achieved with a topic that h

Unable to consume Snappy compressed messages with Simple Consumer

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Hoffman
Publisher (using librdkafka C api) has sent both gzip and snappy compressed messages. I find that the java Simple Consumer ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example#) is unable to read the snappy ones, while the High Level one is. Is this expected? Is ther

Problems consuming snappy compressed messages via SimpleConsumer

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Hoffman
Publisher (using librdkafka C api) has sent both gzip and snappy compressed messages. I find that the java Simple Consumer ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example#) is unable to read the snappy ones, while the High Level one is. Is this expected? Is ther

Re: Problems consuming snappy compressed messages via SimpleConsumer

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Hoffman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Dan Hoffman > > > wrote: > > > Publisher (using librdkafka C api) has sent both gzip and snappy > compressed > > messages. I find that the java Simple Consumer ( > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA

Re: Problems consuming snappy compressed messages via SimpleConsumer

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Hoffman
The kafka-console-consumer is fine. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Neha Narkhede wrote: > Actually I meant the simple consumer shell that ships with kafka in the bin > directory. > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Dan Hoffman wrote: > > > I haven't tried

Re: Unable to consume Snappy compressed messages with Simple Consumer

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Hoffman
gt; > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Dan Hoffman wrote: > > > Publisher (using librdkafka C api) has sent both gzip and snappy > compressed > > messages. I find that the java Simple Consumer ( > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+

Re: Unable to consume Snappy compressed messages with Simple Consumer

2014-02-27 Thread Dan Hoffman
ast parameter in the following call larger (say to > 1,000,000). > > .addFetch(a_topic, a_partition, readOffset, 10) > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Dan Hoffman wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you mean - could you be more speci

How does one measure performance of an existing Kafka cluster?

2014-02-27 Thread Dan Hoffman
Let's say I have a running cluster and users/apps are pounding away at it. Is there a quick and easy way to measure its current throughput? I know there are utilities for generating volume to get stats, but I'd like to simply get some stats about its current operation. Is there a good way to do

Re: How does one measure performance of an existing Kafka cluster?

2014-02-27 Thread Dan Hoffman
gt; > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Dan Hoffman wrote: > > > Let's say I have a running cluster and users/apps are pounding away at > it. > > Is there a quick and easy way to measure its current throughput? I > know > > there are utilities for generatin

RE: How does one measure performance of an existing Kafka cluster?

2014-02-27 Thread Dan Hoffman
ance of an existing Kafka cluster? The jmx beans will expose the metrics per broker. You would need some utility to aggregate across all brokers in a cluster. Thanks, Neha On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Dan Hoffman wrote: > Are the numbers for the entire cluster or just the broker connecte

Re: Kafka Web Console

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Hoffman
Claude, FYI I've submitted a few issues for you to look at/consider. Dan On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Claude Mamo wrote: > Announcing the first release of Kafka Web Console: > https://github.com/claudemamo/kafka-web-console/tree/v1.0. Tested on > Chrome. > > Enjoy, > > Claude >

Re: Anouncing Kafka Offset Monitor 0.1

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Hoffman
Hi - am I right in that for this tool to be effective, consumers must be using the high level consumer or otherwise keeping their offsets in zookeeper? Is there any way to track performance without that? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Steve Morin wrote: > Very nice > > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 11

Re: Kafka C++ Windows Client for 0.8 Releases

2014-03-19 Thread Dan Hoffman
Curious- does your impl require Cygwin? If not, I'd love to use it On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Tianning Zhang wrote: > Dear all, > > I am writing to this list to check if there is any new progress concerning > 0.8 Windows C++ clients and if there are experiences we can share. > > My company (

Re: Kafka C++ Windows Client for 0.8 Releases

2014-03-19 Thread Dan Hoffman
eparate generic part from our proprietary resources/Apis > and make it public, > > KR > > Tianning > > ------------ > Dan Hoffman > schrieb am Mi, > 19.3.2014: > > Betreff: Re: Kafka C++ Windows Client for 0.8 Releases > An: &q

.8 .net/csharp API?

2014-03-19 Thread Dan Hoffman
Hi- wondering if anyone knows of a working .net API for kafka. Last time I checked only .7 was available. At this point only publishing/no consumption required.

Kafka security

2014-03-21 Thread Dan Hoffman
Has anyone implemented anything? We'd like to restrict access to individual topics, etc

Re: how to work arounf Kafka message length?

2014-03-22 Thread Dan Hoffman
Why not use the snappy/gzip compression? On Saturday, March 22, 2014, Vishal Kapoor wrote: > Hello, > > We are in the process of building a general purpose messaging system, our > messages are in xml format to start with, and usually are longer than 1 mb, > what are the best practices around bre