username comes from authenticated clients client.id can be assigned by any client (no authentication required).
It’s hard to enforce a quota on a client.id when the clients can just change the code to use a difference client.id, hence the recent enhancement to add user quotas based on the authenticated username which cannot be changed without the consent of the broker administrator. 0hans > On Mar 31, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Archie <anubhavnidhi1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I had few more questions regarding quotas > > What is the difference between the user-quota and client-quota? How can we > assign user-id to producers? > > Also is it possible to assign client-id to a topic (or) partitions > belonging to a topic? If yes how can we do that? > > > > > Thanks, > Archie > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> you can pass client-id using --producer-props option. >> ex: --producer-props client.id=id1 >> >> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Archie <anubhavnidhi1...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I know that quotas are based on client-id >>> >>> Basically I want to run the kafka-producer-perf-test with a particular >>> client id to test whether the quotas work properly >>> >>> My question is how can I assign a client-id for a particular producer >> (or) >>> partition? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Archie >>> >>
