Yes, the consumer will pick up the new topics when it refreshes metadata (defaults to every 5 min) and start subscribing to the new topics.
-Ewen On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Greenhorn Techie <greenhorntec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Kafka and as well as MirrorMaker. So wondering whether MM would > pick-up new topics that are created on the source cluster automatically, > provided topic matches the while list pattern? > > For example, if I start MM as below, would it replicate any new topics that > are created after the MM process is launched? > > kafka-mirror-maker.sh --new.consumer --consumer.config /opt/kafka/config/ > consumer.properties --producer.config /opt/kafka/config/producer. > properties > --whitelist ".*" > > Or is there a need to restart MM process when a new topic / pattern is > started on the source cluster? > > What should be the recommended approach in regards to this? > > Thanks >
