Jake Robb created KAFKA-3131:
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             Summary: Inappropriate logging level for SSL Problem
                 Key: KAFKA-3131
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3131
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Jake Robb
            Priority: Minor


I didn't have my truststore set up correctly. The Kafka client JAR waited until 
the connection timed out (60 seconds in my case) and then threw this exception:

{code}
Exception in thread "main" java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Failed to update metadata 
after 60000 ms.
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer$FutureFailure.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:706)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(KafkaProducer.java:453)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(KafkaProducer.java:339)
{code}

I changed my log level to DEBUG and found this, less than two seconds after 
startup:
{code}
[DEBUG] @ 2016-01-22 10:10:34,095 
[User: ; Server: ; Client: ; URL: ; ChangeGroup: ]
 org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector  - Connection with kafka02/10.0.0.2 
disconnected 

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.checkThrown(Handshaker.java:1364)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.checkTaskThrown(SSLEngineImpl.java:529)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.writeAppRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:1194)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.wrap(SSLEngineImpl.java:1166)
        at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.wrap(SSLEngine.java:469)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.SslTransportLayer.handshakeWrap(SslTransportLayer.java:377)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.SslTransportLayer.handshake(SslTransportLayer.java:242)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.KafkaChannel.prepare(KafkaChannel.java:68)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.poll(Selector.java:281)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:270)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:216)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:128)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: General SSLEngine problem
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1708)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:303)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:295)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1369)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:156)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:925)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:865)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:862)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$DelegatedTask.run(Handshaker.java:1302)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.SslTransportLayer.runDelegatedTasks(SslTransportLayer.java:335)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.SslTransportLayer.handshakeUnwrap(SslTransportLayer.java:413)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.common.network.SslTransportLayer.handshake(SslTransportLayer.java:269)
        ... 6 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building 
failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to 
find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:387)
        at 
sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:292)
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:281)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:136)
        at 
sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1356)
        ... 15 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable 
to find valid certification path to requested target
        at 
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:145)
        at 
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:131)
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:382)
        ... 21 more
{code}

There are two problems here:
1. The log level should be ERROR if the Kafka producer cannot connect because 
of an SSL handshake problem, as this error is not likely to be intermittent or 
recoverable without intervention. 
2. Ideally, I would think that the producer's call to {{send}} should throw an 
exception immediately rather than waiting for the full timeout.

I'm not sure if it will help, but the full output of my Kafka producer's 
session is attached.



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