Not that I know of. We at Flurry have been using periods in our group names for a while now and haven't encountered any issues b/c of that.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Jeff Widman <j...@netskope.com> wrote: > I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it's a bad idea to use periods > within Kafka consumer group names because it can potentially conflict with > metric names. > > I've searched, and not finding anything, so am I just mis-remembering? > > It is operationally convenient because zookeeper CLI allows tab completion > within periods. >
