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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3318: --------------------------------------- GitHub user hachikuji opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1036 KAFKA-3318: clean up consumer logging and error messages You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/hachikuji/kafka KAFKA-3318 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1036.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 #1036 ---- commit 274378395e48bca11350c1df3a38137810ba0732 Author: Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> Date: 2016-03-09T01:42:11Z KAFKA-3318: clean up consumer logging and error messages ---- > Improve consumer rebalance error messaging > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-3318 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3318 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Jason Gustafson > Assignee: Jason Gustafson > > A common problem with the new consumer is to have message processing take > longer than the session timeout, causing an unexpected rebalance. > Unfortunately, when this happens, the error messages are often cryptic (e.g. > something about illegal generation) and contain no clear advice on what to do > (e.g. increase session timeout). We should do a pass on error messages to > ensure that users receive clear guidance on the problem and possible > solutions. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)