Re: Best Way to Check Producer's Connection to Kafka

On Apr 15, 2015, at 12:09 AM, Alex Melville amelvi...@g.hmc.edu wrote: Hi All, What is the lightest way to check if the connection to Kafka is up or not? Currently I'm having the producer attempt to send a message to a topic, and then catching a TimeoutException and handling logic inside

Best Way to Check Producer's Connection to Kafka

Hi All, What is the lightest way to check if the connection to Kafka is up or not? Currently I'm having the producer attempt to send a message to a topic, and then catching a TimeoutException and handling logic inside of the catch statement. This doesn't seem like the right way to do this,