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Walker Carlson commented on KAFKA-9638:
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There is a kip that might effect how this issues behaves. With the new handler
(KIP-671) there will be an option to just shutdown the application on such
failures. This should prevent unnecessary rebalances in this case. It would be
left in state ERROR which the following kip is making terminal.
[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/lCvZCQ]
> Do not trigger REBALANCING when specific exceptions occur in Kafka Streams
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> Key: KAFKA-9638
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9638
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: streams
> Reporter: Levani Kokhreidze
> Priority: Major
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> As of now, when StreamThread encounters exception in Kafka Streams
> application, it will result in REBALANCING of all the tasks that were
> responsibility of the given thread. Problem with that is, if the exception
> was, lets say some logical exception, like NPE, REBALANCING is pretty much
> useless, cause all other threads will also die with the same NPE. This kind
> of mute rebalancing gives extra costs in terms of network traffic, IOPS, etc
> in case of large stateful applications.
> In addition, this behaviour causes global outage of the Kafka Streams
> application, instead of localized outage of the certain tasks. Would be great
> if Kafka Streams users could specify via some interface, exceptions that must
> not trigger rebalancing of the tasks. StreamThread may still die, but in this
> case, we would have isolated incident.
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