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Julius Michaelis commented on FLINK-18150:
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I tried reproducing the problem outside of this tiny docker cluster, and there
it seems that the number of producers is irrelevant (was running on 4 x
m5dn.2xlarge as Flink slaves with 10 taskslots and 6 x m5d.2xlarge as Kafka
brokers, topics with 100 partitions, one producer in the job).
> A single failing Kafka broker may cause jobs to fail indefinitely with
> TimeoutException: Timeout expired while fetching topic metadata
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>
> Key: FLINK-18150
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18150
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Connectors / Kafka
> Affects Versions: 1.10.1
> Environment: It is a bit unclear to me under what circumstances this
> can be reproduced. I created a "minimum" non-working example at
> https://github.com/jcaesar/flink-kafka-ha-failure. Note that this deploys the
> minimum number of Kafka brokers, but it works just as well with replication
> factor 3 and 8 brokers, e.g.
> I run this with
> {code:bash}
> docker-compose kill; and docker-compose rm -vf; and docker-compose up
> --abort-on-container-exit --build
> {code}
> The exception should appear on the webui after 5~6 minutes.
> To make sure that this isn't dependent on my machine, I've also checked
> reproducibility on a m5a.2xlarge EC2 instance.
> You verify that the Kafka cluster is running "normally" e.g. with:
> {code:bash}
> kafkacat -b localhost,localhost:9093 -L
> {code}
> So far, I only know that
> * {{flink.partition-discovery.interval-millis}} must be set.
> * The broker that failed must be part of the {{bootstrap.servers}}
> * There needs to be a certain amount of topics or producers, but I'm unsure
> which is crucial
> * Changing the values of {{metadata.request.timeout.ms}} or
> {{flink.partition-discovery.interval-millis}} does not seem to have any
> effect.
> Reporter: Julius Michaelis
> Priority: Major
>
> When a Kafka broker fails that is listed among the bootstrap servers and
> partition discovery is active, the Flink job reading from that Kafka may
> enter a failing loop.
> At first, the job seems to react normally without failure with only a short
> latency spike when switching Kafka leaders.
> Then, it fails with a
> {code:none}
> org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Handover$ClosedException
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Handover.close(Handover.java:182)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.KafkaFetcher.cancel(KafkaFetcher.java:175)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.cancel(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:821)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.cancel(StreamSource.java:147)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.SourceStreamTask.cancelTask(SourceStreamTask.java:136)
> at
> org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.cancel(StreamTask.java:602)
> at
> org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task$TaskCanceler.run(Task.java:1355)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> {code}
> It recovers, but processes fewer than the expected amount of records.
> Finally, the job fails with
> {code:none}
> 2020-06-05 13:59:37
> org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Timeout expired while
> fetching topic metadata
> {code}
> and repeats doing so while not processing any records. (The exception comes
> without any backtrace or otherwise interesting information)
> I have also observed this behavior with partition-discovery turned off, but
> only when the Flink job failed (after a broker failure) and had to run
> checkpoint recovery for some other reason.
> Please see the [Environment] description for information on how to reproduce
> the issue.
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