If you are using the new Kafka Producer (in org.apache.kafka.clients package), you can configure number of retries. The Producer will queue messages and re-attempt to send them as specified.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Jeff Gong <j.gon...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > > currently working with a team that is interested in replacing scribe with > kafka. currently in scribe's model it is my understanding that when there > is a network failure scribe will attempt to persist messages by queueing > them and resending the queued messages when those issues are resolved. > > i understand that for kafka this issue is attempted to be avoided with the > replication factor, but in the case where all brokers are disconnected or > facing network issues is it correct that kafka will simply fail to send > messages in this time? if this is the case, is there any plan to develop a > similar model to handle network issues? > > thanks for any help!
