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 >
