If he/she uses more than than 1 broker and uses either a zk-based producer or a broker list based producer with a vip, it should be able to proceed when one of the brokers is down.
Thanks, Jun On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Sybrandy, Casey < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A coworker is having an issue where he's writing a plugin for > ElasticSearch and is using the Kafka Log4J appender to log errors to a > topic. However, if for some reason the broker is missing, the whole server > stops responding to requests. Is this related to what is disucussed in the > link below? Is this a known behaviour? Is it something we're doing wrong? > Just wanted to ask before we reported a new bug. > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kafka-dev/201209.mbox/%3C1438326217.82968.1347663007581.JavaMail.jiratomcat@arcas%3E >
