At a certain hour I have seen a huge up tick in requests. log4j.appender.requestAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.requestAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH log4j.appender.requestAppender.File=logs/kafka-request.log log4j.appender.requestAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.requestAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %m (%c)%n
[2014-08-28 18:00:00,031] TRACE Completed request:Name: FetchRequest; Version: 0; CorrelationId: 10672153; ClientId: xxxx; ReplicaId: -1; MaxWait: 100 ms; MinBytes: 1 bytes; RequestInfo: [events,0] -> PartitionFetchInfo(41358968,1048576) from client /10.9.61.6:55168;totalTime:100,queueTime:0,localTime:0,remoteTime:100,sendTime:0 (kafka.request.logger) Everything seems normal, we have a topic with 100 partitions a good flow of data an 10 active producers. I am going ot lower the log level but does anything thing this chatter is indicative of a problem?