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Boyang Chen commented on KAFKA-8506: ------------------------------------ Why broker calles `consumer.poll`? > Kafka Consumer broker never stops on connection failure > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-8506 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8506 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Gaurav > Priority: Critical > > not able to stop the Kafka broker on connection failure it keeps retrying to > create connection on calling consumer.poll(1000). We poll ondemand via rest > if case of connection failure it should stop and throw exception. > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)