Re: Kafka-node: Kafka client keeps sending request to broker which went down

2018-10-26 Thread Colin McCabe
Hi Shashank, kafka-node is not developed by Apache or the Apache Kafka project. I don't think anyone here has looked at that code. I have heard reports from the field that kafka-node has some very serious bugs, such as not retrying failed requests at all in some circumstances. I do not recom

Kafka-node: Kafka client keeps sending request to broker which went down

2018-10-23 Thread Shashank Sah
When a broker host goes down/restarts, the kafka client keeps sending the new requests to the same hosts address. As a result, the requests are failing with this error: Request timed out after 3ms. Node version: v6.8.1 Kafka-node version: 3.0.1 Kafka version: 2.11-2.0.0 Number of Brokers: 3 Nu