Thanks Praveen.
I realized I'd been mis-remembering the warning that I'd been seeing. The
limitation is for topic names, not consumer group names:
*WARNING: Due to limitations in metric names, topics with a period ('.') or
underscore ('_') could collide. To avoid issues it is best to use either,
but not both.*
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Praveen <praveev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that I know of. We at Flurry have been using periods in our group names
> for a while now and haven't encountered any issues b/c of that.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Jeff Widman <j...@netskope.com> wrote:
>
> > I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it's a bad idea to use periods
> > within Kafka consumer group names because it can potentially conflict
> with
> > metric names.
> >
> > I've searched, and not finding anything, so am I just mis-remembering?
> >
> > It is operationally convenient because zookeeper CLI allows tab
> completion
> > within periods.
> >
>
