I think it will depend on how your producer application logs things, but yes I have historically seen exceptions in the producer logs when they exceed the max message size.
-Mark On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chen Wang <chen.apache.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > I recently noticed our message amount in kafka seems to have dropped > significantly. I didn't see any exception on my consumer side. Since > producer is not within my control, I am trying to get some guidance on how > I could debug this issue. > > Our individual message size recently have increased. Will that cause > message drop if it exceeds "message.max.bytes" on the broker side? If so, I > should see Exceptions on the producer logs, is that right? or is there some > kinda broker log I can check? > > Thanks, > Chen >