Kafka Troubleshooting

Intended audience: Anyone who is administering Kafka at the USDF.

Known Issues

Issue

Description

Workaround

Kafka will not start gracefully after full hardware or power outages

Nodes can come up in any order. If Kafdrop and/or Kafka brokers come up before the Raft nodes Kafka will be unhealthy.

Perform a rollout restart on the Kafka brokers and Kafdrop.

Investigate Kafka Restart

Symptoms: Kafka has an unexplained restart that is not related to a hardware event.

Cause: This could be an issue with a Pod not responding or with Kafka application events.

Solution: Follow the instructions here to identify the restart reason.