For our long running testing at LinkedIn we actually just use the mirror maker tool and fork off a copy of the full production streams and throw it at the test cluster. This is, of course, only useful if you have a high-load cluster to replay...
-Jay On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:27 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another reason is to test kafka will potentially larger payloads (10-100K) > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:26 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I plan on creating some sort of a long running test with kafka, curiuos > if > > anyone has already done this and released the code. > > > > I want to setup some ec2 instances, and mimick what I think will be close > > to real life usage, and monitor how things work. I want this to run for > 24 > > hours or more. > > > > I know there are system tests, but I believe those are short lived tests. > > > > It is always interesting to see how things work like if consumers fall > > behind, etc. > > >