Guozhang, Do you have the ticket number for possibly adding in local log file failover? Is it actively being worked on?
Thanks, Jason On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does this "log file" acts as a temporary disk buffer when broker slows > down, whose data will be re-send to broker later, or do you plan to use it > as a separate persistent storage as Kafka brokers? > > For the former use case, I think there is an open ticket for integrating > this kind of functionality into producer; for the latter use case, you may > want to do this traffic control out of Kafka producer, i.e. upon detecting > producer buffer full, do not call send() on it for a while but write to a > different file, etc. > > Guozhang > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, mete <efk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sure, i kind of count on that actually, i guess with this setting the > > sender blocks on allocate method and this bufferpool-wait-ratio > increases. > > > > I want to fully compartmentalize the kafka producer from the rest of the > > system. Ex: writing to a log file instead of trying to send to kafka when > > some metric in the producer indicates that there is a performance > > degradation or some other problem. > > I was wondering what would be the ideal way of deciding that? > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
