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Important configuration properties for the high-level consumer

Important configuration properties for the high-level consumer

Important configuration properties for the high-level consumer:

More details about consumer configuration can be found in the scala class kafka.consumer.ConsumerConfig.

property

default

description

groupid

groupid

is a string that uniquely identifies a set of consumers within the same consumer group.

socket.timeout.ms

30000

controls the socket timeout for network requests

socket.buffersize

64*1024

controls the socket receive buffer for network requests

fetch.size

300 * 1024

controls the number of bytes of messages to attempt to fetch in one request to the Kafka server

backoff.increment.ms

1000

This parameter avoids repeatedly polling a broker node which has no new data. We will backoff every time we get an empty set from the broker for this time period

queuedchunks.max

100

the high level consumer buffers the messages fetched from the server internally in blocking queues. This parameter controls the size of those queues

autocommit.enable

true

if set to true, the consumer periodically commits to zookeeper the latest consumed offset of each partition.

autocommit.interval.ms

10000

is the frequency that the consumed offsets are committed to zookeeper.

autooffset.reset

smallest

  • smallest: automatically reset the offset to the smallest offset available on the broker.
  • largest : automatically reset the offset to the largest offset available on the broker.
  • anything else: throw an exception to the consumer.

consumer.timeout.ms

-1

By default, this value is -1 and a consumer blocks indefinitely if no new message is available for consumption. By setting the value to a positive integer, a timeout exception is thrown to the consumer if no message is available for consumption after the specified timeout value.

rebalance.retries.max

4

max number of retries during rebalance

mirror.topics.whitelist

""

Whitelist of topics for this mirror’s embedded consumer to consume. At most one of whitelist/blacklist may be specified.

mirror.topics.blacklist

""

Topics to skip mirroring. At most one of whitelist/blacklist may be specified

mirror.consumer.numthreads

4

The number of threads to be used per topic for the mirroring consumer, by default