GitHub user auradkar opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/989
KAFKA-3310: Fix for NPEs observed when throttling clients. The fix basically ensures that the throttleTimeSensor is non-null before handing off to record the metric value. We also record the throttle time to 0 so that we don't recreate the sensor always. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/auradkar/kafka KAFKA-3310 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/989.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #989 ---- commit cd5007eb3c94ae2d1983cc6a4b9a9fe4e96ff1b1 Author: Aditya Auradkar <aaurad...@linkedin.com> Date: 2016-03-01T20:18:59Z KAFKA-3310: Fix for NPEs observed when throttling clients. The fix basically ensures that the throttleTimeSensor is non-null before handing off to record the metric value. We also record the throttle time to 0 so that we don't recreate the sensor always. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---