Howard, Kafka consumers fetch data in bulk, controlled by the consumer's fetch.size, to reduce the overhead of a network roundtrip. Hence, there is no need for any special agent between a Kafka broker and consumer.
Thanks, Neha On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, howard chen <howac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any similar thing like the Flume agent such that they are > installed at the place where the logs was produced, and temporarily > store the message so as to reduce the network latency during every API > calls to the Kafka's broker? > > Thanks.
