I keep seeing these errors in my code that is just trying to send some data using an AsyncProducer:
kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after 3 tries. at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(Unknown Source) ~[kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.tryToHandle(Unknown Source) [kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(Unknown Source) [kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(Unknown Source) [kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] at scala.collection.immutable.Stream.foreach(Stream.scala:547) [scala-library-2.10.1.jar:na] at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.processEvents(Unknown Source) [kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.run(Unknown Source) [kafka_2.10-0.8.0.jar:0.8.0] 2014-10-30T01:40:45.176Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler] {}: Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: null 2014-10-30T01:40:45.506Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler] {}: Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: null 2014-10-30T01:40:45.647Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler] {}: Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: null 2014-10-30T01:40:45.772Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler] {}: Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: null 2014-10-30T01:40:45.890Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler] {}: Failed to send requests for topics myTopic with correlation ids in [169,176] 2014-10-30T01:40:45.892Z ERROR [ProducerSendThread- ] [k.producer.async.ProducerSendThread ] {}: Error in handling batch of 29 events I created the topic before starting using bin/kafka-topics.sh. I checked zookeeper and seems like the topic was indeed created. Any ideas?