Hi, I am having a hard time understanding why a Consumer#commitSync can randomly fail.
Not being able to commit creates duplicates, which I can understand in failure cases: - the poll interval is not respected max.poll.interval.ms (300s) - a consumer is stuck or die -> no heart beat during session.timeout.ms (10s) - a rebalancing cannot be completed within rebalance.timeout.ms (60s) - Kafka cannot be reached within the default.api.timeout.ms (60s) - Kafka is itself in failure, for instance, zookeeper is not reachable zookeeper.session.timeout.ms (6s) But in "normal" situation I expect that consumers can enter and leave the group and commit without raising an exception, this is not what I am seeing using Kafka 4.3.1 (client and server) where I randomly get commit exception: CommitFailedException: Commit cannot be completed ... You can address this either by increasing max.poll.interval.ms or by reducing the maximum size of batches returned in poll() with max.poll.records. Looking at the code and Jira I see that this exception message can sometimes be wrong (I traced the last poll invocation was 5s before the exception) and that there is a fix around this in 4.5.0. I have upgraded the client code (server are still in 4.3.1) and now I have a more specific exception: RebalanceInProgressException: Offset commit cannot be completed since the consumer is undergoing a rebalance for auto partition assignment. You can try completing the rebalance by calling poll() and then retry the operation. I am unsure what to do with that, in my code a consumer commits during a checkpoint procedure, retrying processing will create duplicate which I want to avoid, furthermore calling poll from a checkpoint is weird especially if I have no guarantee that I can commit the same offset. My guess is that there is a race condition during rebalancing the consumer is calling poll and times out (no record), the onPartitionsAssigned listener is not notified which could explain the rebalance in progress commit exception. Am I missing something obvious to avoid this exception, how should it be managed? Thanks for your help. Regards ben
