Does block.on.buffer.full=false do what you want?

-Jay

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:59 AM, mete <efk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> I was looking through the kafka.producer metrics on the JMX interface, to
> find a good indicator when to "trip" the circuit. So far it seems like the
> "bufferpool-wait-ratio" metric is a useful decision mechanism when to cut
> off the production to kafka.
>
> As far as i experienced, when kafka server slow for some reason, requests
> start piling up on the producer queue and if you are not willing to drop
> any messages on the producer, send method starts blocking because of the
> slow responsiveness.
>
> So this buffer pool wait ratio starts going up from 0.x up to 1.0. And i am
> thinking about tripping the circuit breaker using this metric, ex: if
> wait-ratio > 0.90 etc...
>
> What do you think? Do you think there would be a better indicator to check
> the health overall?
>
> Best
> Mete
>

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