Re: are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-05 Thread Dennis Haller
This will force a rewrite of those monitoring tools and UI tools that read offsets from Zookeeper in order directly to get lag information for reporting on consumer clients. It seems a good thing to know this is coming down the pipe. Dennis On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote:

Re: are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-04 Thread Neha Narkhede
At LinkedIn, we are just beginning to move our applications to Kafka based offset management. I'm not sure if Todd/Clark/Joel have any numbers to share right away, but depending on the number of consumers you have and the number of topics those consumers pull, it will likely make a sizable impact o

Re: are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-04 Thread S Ahmed
Very nice. Do you guys have any stats on what kind of load was reduced on ZK? Just trying to understand if this changes the type of servers required to host ZK. On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Guozhang Wang wrote: > Yes, we are migrating the offset management from ZK to the broker as a > s

Re: are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-04 Thread Guozhang Wang
Yes, we are migrating the offset management from ZK to the broker as a special log. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Inbuilt+Consumer+Offset+Management The code is in trunk, and it is running in production at LinkedIn now. Guozhang On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, S Ahmed wro

Re: are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-04 Thread Neha Narkhede
Consumers in a future release (0.8.2) or trunk will write offsets to a Kafka topic, not zookeeper. Thanks, Neha On Jun 4, 2014 10:00 AM, "S Ahmed" wrote: > I swear I read that Jay Kreps wrote somewhere that consumers now write > their offsets in a logfile (not in zookeeper). > > Is this true or

are consumer offsets stored in a log?

2014-06-04 Thread S Ahmed
I swear I read that Jay Kreps wrote somewhere that consumers now write their offsets in a logfile (not in zookeeper). Is this true or did I misread? Sorry I can't find the article I was reading.