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Steven Schlansker commented on KAFKA-4722: ------------------------------------------ I have multiple different functional sections of my application. Each has their own KStreamBuilder / KafkaStreams / KStream / KTable instances. An error thrown from one part of the application is very hard to differentiate from the others. For example right now I have: {code} 2017-02-01T14:41:22.120Z ERROR [StreamThread-2] o.a.k.s.p.internals.StreamThread - stream-thread [StreamThread-2] Streams application error during processing: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Assigned partition public.chat.message-0 for non-subscribed topic. at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.SubscriptionState.assignFromSubscribed(SubscriptionState.java:187) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.onJoinComplete(ConsumerCoordinator.java:215) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.joinGroupIfNeeded(AbstractCoordinator.java:313) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureActiveGroup(AbstractCoordinator.java:277) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.poll(ConsumerCoordinator.java:259) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:1013) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:979) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:407) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:242) {code} and it is not clear which instance of {{KafkaStreams}} produced this. > StreamThread should allow customization of thread prefix > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-4722 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4722 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: streams > Affects Versions: 0.10.1.1 > Reporter: Steven Schlansker > > StreamThread currently sets its name thusly: > {code} > super("StreamThread-" + STREAM_THREAD_ID_SEQUENCE.getAndIncrement()); > {code} > When you have multiple KStream / KTables in an application, it would be nice > to customize the "StreamThread" prefix. The id is a good start but a > human-recognizable name would make logs much easier to read. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)