We have a 2 node kafka cluster with both auto.create.topics.enable and delete.topic.enable set to true. Our app reads from a common request topic and responds to a response topic provided by the client in the request payload.
auto.create.topics is set to true as our client has an auto-scale environment wherein a new worker will read from a new response topic. Due to some implementation issues on the client side, there are a lot of topics created which have never been used (end offset is 0) and we are attempting to clean that up.
The problem is that upon deleting the topic, it is being recreated almost immediately. These topics don't have any consumer (as the worker listening to it is already dead).
I have tried the following
Kafka CLI delete command
kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic <topic-name> --delete
Create a zookeeper node under
/admin/delete_topics/<topic-name>
Both don't seem to work. In the logs, I see that a request for delete was received and the corresponding logs/indexes were deleted. But within a few seconds/minutes, the topic is auto-created. Logs for reference -
INFO [Partition <topic-name>-0 broker=0] No checkpointed highwatermark is found for partition <topic-name>-0 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
INFO Replica loaded for partition <topic-name>-0 with initial high watermark 0 (kafka.cluster.Replica)
INFO Replica loaded for partition <topic-name>-0 with initial high watermark 0 (kafka.cluster.Replica)
INFO [Partition <topic-name>-0 broker=0] <topic-name>-0 starts at Leader Epoch 0 from offset 0. Previous Leader Epoch was: -1 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-4.7a79dfc720624d228d5ee90c8d4c325e-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-4.7a79dfc720624d228d5ee90c8d4c325e-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-4.7a79dfc720624d228d5ee90c8d4c325e-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-4 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-4.7a79dfc720624d228d5ee90c8d4c325e-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-2.d32a905f9ace459cb62a530b2c605347-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-2.d32a905f9ace459cb62a530b2c605347-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-2.d32a905f9ace459cb62a530b2c605347-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-2 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-2.d32a905f9ace459cb62a530b2c605347-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-3.0670e8aefae5481682d53afcc09bab6a-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-3.0670e8aefae5481682d53afcc09bab6a-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-3.0670e8aefae5481682d53afcc09bab6a-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-3 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-3.0670e8aefae5481682d53afcc09bab6a-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-7.ac76d42a39094955abfb9d37951f4fae-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-7.ac76d42a39094955abfb9d37951f4fae-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-7.ac76d42a39094955abfb9d37951f4fae-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-7 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-7.ac76d42a39094955abfb9d37951f4fae-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-1.4872c74d579f4553a881114749e08141-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-1.4872c74d579f4553a881114749e08141-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-1.4872c74d579f4553a881114749e08141-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-1 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-1.4872c74d579f4553a881114749e08141-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-0.489b7241226341f0a7ffa3d1b9a70e35-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-0.489b7241226341f0a7ffa3d1b9a70e35-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-0.489b7241226341f0a7ffa3d1b9a70e35-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-0 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-0.489b7241226341f0a7ffa3d1b9a70e35-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-5.6d659cd119304e1f9a4077265364d05b-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-5.6d659cd119304e1f9a4077265364d05b-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-5.6d659cd119304e1f9a4077265364d05b-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-5 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-5.6d659cd119304e1f9a4077265364d05b-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Deleted log /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-6.652d1aec02014a3aa59bd3e14635bd3b-delete/00000000000000000000.log. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted offset index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-6.652d1aec02014a3aa59bd3e14635bd3b-delete/00000000000000000000.index. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted time index /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-6.652d1aec02014a3aa59bd3e14635bd3b-delete/00000000000000000000.timeindex. (kafka.log.LogSegment)
INFO Deleted log for partition <topic-name>-6 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-6.652d1aec02014a3aa59bd3e14635bd3b-delete. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO [GroupCoordinator 0]: Removed 0 offsets associated with deleted partitions: <topic-name>-0. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupCoordinator)
INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions Set(<topic-name>-0) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
INFO [ReplicaAlterLogDirsManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions Set(<topic-name>-0) (kafka.server.ReplicaAlterLogDirsManager)
INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions Set(<topic-name>-0) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
INFO [ReplicaAlterLogDirsManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions Set(<topic-name>-0) (kafka.server.ReplicaAlterLogDirsManager)
INFO Log for partition <topic-name>-0 is renamed to /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0/<topic-name>-0.185c7eda12b749a2999cd39b3f90c738-delete and is scheduled for deletion (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO Creating topic <topic-name> with configuration {} and initial partition assignment Map(0 -> ArrayBuffer(0, 1)) (kafka.zk.AdminZkClient)
INFO [KafkaApi-0] Auto creation of topic <topic-name> with 1 partitions and replication factor 2 is successful (kafka.server.KafkaApis)
INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions Set(<topic-name>-0) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
INFO [Log partition=<topic-name>-0, dir=/home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0] Loading producer state till offset 0 with message format version 2 (kafka.log.Log)
INFO [Log partition=<topic-name>-0, dir=/home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0] Completed load of log with 1 segments, log start offset 0 and log end offset 0 in 0 ms (kafka.log.Log)
INFO Created log for partition <topic-name>-0 in /home/ec2-user/data/kafka/0 with properties {compression.type -> producer, message.format.version -> 2.2-IV1, file.delete.delay.ms -> 60000, max.message.bytes -> 1000012, min.compaction.lag.ms -> 0, message.timestamp.type -> CreateTime, message.downconversion.enable -> true, min.insync.replicas -> 1, segment.jitter.ms -> 0, preallocate -> false, min.cleanable.dirty.ratio -> 0.5, index.interval.bytes -> 4096, unclean.leader.election.enable -> false, retention.bytes -> -1, delete.retention.ms -> 86400000, cleanup.policy -> [delete], flush.ms -> 9223372036854775807, segment.ms -> 604800000, segment.bytes -> 1073741824, retention.ms -> 86400000, message.timestamp.difference.max.ms -> 9223372036854775807, segment.index.bytes -> 10485760, flush.messages -> 9223372036854775807}. (kafka.log.LogManager)
INFO [Partition <topic-name>-0 broker=0] No checkpointed highwatermark is found for partition <topic-name>-0 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
INFO Replica loaded for partition <topic-name>-0 with initial high watermark 0 (kafka.cluster.Replica)
INFO Replica loaded for partition <topic-name>-0 with initial high watermark 0 (kafka.cluster.Replica)
INFO [Partition <topic-name>-0 broker=0] <topic-name>-0 starts at Leader Epoch 0 from offset 0. Previous Leader Epoch was: -1 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
Does anyone know the reason behind the topic being re-created when no consumers are listening and no producers are producing to the topic? Could replication be behind it (some race condition perhaps)? We are using Kafka 2.2.
Deleting the log directory for that topic directly seems to work, however, this is cumbersome when there are thousands of topics created. We want to have a cleanup script that does this periodically as due to the auto-scale nature of the client environment, there may be frequent orphaned response topics.
Update
I tried Giorgos' suggestion by disabling auto.create.topics.enable and then deleting the topic. This time the topic did get deleted, but none of my applications through any errors (which leads to me the conclusion that there are no consumers/producers to the said topic).
Further, when auto.create.topics.enable is enabled and the topic is created with a replication-factor=1, the topic does not get re-created after deletion. This leads me to believe that perhaps replication is the culprit. Could this be a bug in Kafka?
Jumped the gun here; turns out something is listening/re-creating these topics from the customer environment.
Even if you've mentioned that no consumer/producer is consuming/producing from the topic, it sounds that this is the case. Maybe you have any connectors running on Kafka Connect that replicate data from/to Kafka?
If you still can't find what is causing the re-creation of the deleted Kafka topics, I would suggest setting auto.create.topics.enable to false (temporarily) so that topics cannot be automatically re-created. Then the process that is causing topic re-creation will normally fail and this is going to be reported in your logs.
We have a kafka streams application (2.0) which is communicating with kafka brokers (1.1.0). The streams application has been reprocessing the entire log for no discernible reason - the application hadn't been restarted, wasn't being rebalanced, and was just sitting around - in some cases it was processing messages, in others it was waiting to receive messages (having processed messages less than 6 hours ago). We've done a fair amount of research and have ruled out a potential cause by setting the offset-retention-minutes to 1 week, the same amount of time as our message retention. Additionally, it wouldn't make sense that this would be the root cause of the issue the consumer group offset was reset while it was actively processing messages.
There is nothing interesting in the broker logs around the time of the events:
[2019-02-21 09:02:20,009] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=2] Removed 0 expired offsets in 0 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2019-02-21 09:12:20,009] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=2] Removed 0 expired offsets in 0 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2019-02-21 09:12:51,084] INFO [ProducerStateManager partition=MY_TOPIC-1] Writing producer snapshot at offset 422924 (kafka.log.ProducerStateManager)
[2019-02-21 09:12:51,085] INFO [Log partition=MY_TOPIC-1, dir=/data1/kafka] Rolled new log segment at offset 422924 in 1 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2019-02-21 09:14:56,384] INFO [ProducerStateManager partition=MY_TOPIC-12] Writing producer snapshot at offset 295610 (kafka.log.ProducerStateManager)
[2019-02-21 09:14:56,384] INFO [Log partition=MY_TOPIC-12, dir=/data1/kafka] Rolled new log segment at offset 295610 in 1 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2019-02-21 09:15:19,365] INFO [ProducerStateManager partition=__transaction_state-8] Writing producer snapshot at offset 3939084 (kafka.log.ProducerStateManager)
[2019-02-21 09:15:19,365] INFO [Log partition=__transaction_state-8, dir=/data1/kafka] Rolled new log segment at offset 3939084 in 0 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2019-02-21 09:21:26,755] INFO [ProducerStateManager partition=MY_TOPIC-9] Writing producer snapshot at offset 319799 (kafka.log.ProducerStateManager)
[2019-02-21 09:21:26,755] INFO [Log partition=MY_TOPIC-9, dir=/data1/kafka] Rolled new log segment at offset 319799 in 1 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2019-02-21 09:22:20,009] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=2] Removed 0 expired offsets in 0 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2019-02-21 09:23:31,283] INFO [ProducerStateManager partition=__consumer_offsets-17] Writing producer snapshot at offset 47345110 (kafka.log.ProducerStateManager)
[2019-02-21 09:23:31,297] INFO [Log partition=__consumer_offsets-17, dir=/data1/kafka] Rolled new log segment at offset 47345110 in 28 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
And absolutely nothing in the application logs (even with the log level set to DEBUG).
Any ideas about what might be causing this issue?
Upgrading the Kafka brokers to 2.0.0 resolved this issue.
Kafka 1.1.1-cp1. (Edit 4: I ended up filing a bug with Kafka about this - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7447)
I have 3 brokers, with min.insync.replicas = 2 for all topics, and offsets.commit.required.acks = -1.
When I stop one of the brokers, as you'd expect, it hands off the partitions it is leader for, and everything carries on as normal (consumers consuming, producers producing).
The problems start when I bring the broker back. What seems to happen is that it causes confusion in the cluster, and some __consumer_offset topics get immediately truncated to 0.
Here's a selection of logs, in chronological order, from an affected __consumer_offset partition (one that was originally lead by the broker which went down). The story plays out across logs from all three brokers.
Essentially, the broker that I bounced comes back, seemingly can't understand what the new leader means, truncates to 0, and then persuades the other replicas to truncate to 0 as well.
prod-kafka-2: (just starting up)
[2018-09-17 09:21:46,246] WARN [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=1, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Based on follower's leader epoch, leader replied with an unknown offset in __consumer_offsets-29. The initial fetch offset 0 will be used for truncation. (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
prod-kafka-3: (sees replica1 come back)
[2018-09-17 09:22:02,027] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Expanding ISR from 0,2 to 0,2,1 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
prod-kafka-2:
[2018-09-17 09:22:33,892] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=1] Scheduling unloading of offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:22:33,902] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=1] Finished unloading __consumer_offsets-29. Removed 0 cached offsets and 0 cached groups. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:24:03,287] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 1] Removed fetcher for partitions __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
[2018-09-17 09:24:03,287] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=1] __consumer_offsets-29 starts at Leader Epoch 78 from offset 0. Previous Leader Epoch was: 77 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:03,287] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=1] Scheduling loading of offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:24:03,288] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=1] Finished loading offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets-29 in 0 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
prod-kafka-3: struggling to agree with prod-kafka-2. Kicks it out of ISR, but then fights with ZooKeeper. Perhaps 2 and 3 both think they're leader?
[2018-09-17 09:24:15,372] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:15,377] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
prod-kafka-2: rudely kicks BOTH of the other two replicas out of the ISR list, even though 2 is the one we just restarted and therefore is most likely behind. (Bear in mind that it already decided to truncate the topic to 0!)
[2018-09-17 09:24:16,481] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=1] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 1 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
prod-kafka-3: still fighting with zookeeper. Eventually loses.
[2018-09-17 09:24:20,374] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:20,378] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:25,347] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:25,350] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:30,359] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:30,362] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:35,365] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:35,368] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:40,352] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:40,354] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:45,422] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:45,425] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:50,345] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:50,348] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:55,444] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:24:55,449] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:00,340] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:00,343] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:05,374] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:05,377] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:10,342] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:10,344] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:15,348] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:15,351] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:20,338] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:20,340] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:25,338] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:25,340] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:30,382] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:30,387] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:35,341] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:35,344] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:40,460] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:40,465] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:45,335] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Shrinking ISR from 0,2,1 to 0,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2018-09-17 09:25:45,338] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=2] Cached zkVersion [1582] not equal to that in zookeeper, skip updating ISR (kafka.cluster.Partition)
prod-kafka-1: suddenly gets confused and also re-inits to 0, as prod-kafka-2 apparently becomes leader.
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,807] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-29, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
prod-kafka-3: finally decides that prod-kafka-2 is in charge, truncates accordingly
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,806] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 2] Removed fetcher for partitions __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,807] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 2] Added fetcher for partitions List([__consumer_offsets-29, initOffset 0 to broker BrokerEndPoint(1,prod-kafka-2.c.i-lastfm-prod.internal,9092)] ) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,809] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=2] Scheduling unloading of offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,810] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=2] Finished unloading __consumer_offsets-29. Removed 0 cached offsets and 0 cached groups. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,950] WARN [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=2, leaderId=1, fetcherId=0] Based on follower's leader epoch, leader replied with an unknown offset in __consumer_offsets-29. The initial fetch offset 0 will be used for truncation. (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2018-09-17 09:25:48,951] INFO [Log partition=__consumer_offsets-29, dir=/var/lib/kafka/data] Truncating to 0 has no effect as the largest offset in the log is -1 (kafka.log.Log)
prod-kafka-1: leadership inauguration confirmed.
[2018-09-17 09:25:50,207] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-29, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
prod-kafka-2: now that it has asserted its dominance via zookeeper, prod-kafka-3 added to the ISR list
[2018-09-17 09:25:50,210] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=1] Expanding ISR from 1 to 1,2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
prod-kafka-1: still struggling to accept reality, but eventually also truncates to 0.
[2018-09-17 09:25:51,430] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-29, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2018-09-17 09:25:52,615] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-29, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2018-09-17 09:25:53,637] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=2, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-29, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,150] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,151] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Added fetcher for partitions List([__consumer_offsets-29, initOffset 0 to broker BrokerEndPoint(1,prod-kafka-2.c.i-lastfm-prod.internal,9092)] ) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,151] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=0] Scheduling unloading of offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets-29 (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,153] INFO [GroupMetadataManager brokerId=0] Finished unloading __consumer_offsets-29. Removed 0 cached offsets and 0 cached groups. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,261] WARN [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=0, leaderId=1, fetcherId=0] Based on follower's leader epoch, leader replied with an unknown offset in __consumer_offsets-29. The initial fetch offset 0 will be used for truncation. (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2018-09-17 09:25:54,261] INFO [Log partition=__consumer_offsets-29, dir=/var/lib/kafka/data] Truncating to 0 has no effect as the largest offset in the log is -1 (kafka.log.Log)
prod-kafka-2: completes its coup of consumer offsets, all is now 0.
[2018-09-17 09:25:56,244] INFO [Partition __consumer_offsets-29 broker=1] Expanding ISR from 1,2 to 1,2,0 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
Edit:
As requested, here is kafka server.properties file:
broker.id=1
default.replication.factor=3
auto.create.topics.enable=false
min.insync.replicas=2
num.network.threads=12
num.io.threads=16
num.replica.fetchers=6
socket.send.buffer.bytes=102400
socket.receive.buffer.bytes=102400
socket.request.max.bytes=104857600
log.dirs=/var/lib/kafka/data
num.partitions=1
num.recovery.threads.per.data.dir=4
offsets.retention.minutes=10080
offsets.topic.replication.factor=3
transaction.state.log.replication.factor=3
transaction.state.log.min.isr=2
log.flush.interval.messages=20000
log.flush.interval.ms=10000
log.retention.hours=168
log.segment.bytes=1073741824
log.retention.check.interval.ms=60000
zookeeper.connect=prod-kafka-1:2181,prod-kafka-2:2181,prod-kafka-3:2181
zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms=6000
confluent.support.metrics.enable=false
confluent.support.customer.id=anonymous
group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms=3000
And here is the zookeeper.properties file:
tickTime=2000
initLimit=10
syncLimit=5
dataDir=/var/lib/zookeeper
clientPort=2181
server.1=prod-kafka-1:2888:3888
server.2=prod-kafka-2:2888:3888
server.3=prod-kafka-3:2888:3888
autopurge.purgeInterval=12
autopurge.snapRetainCount=6
Edit 2
Upgrading to Kafka-2.0.0 didn't seem to solve the problem.
It might be that my incoming rate is too high and that I need to throttle the producers when I know that my crashed server is about to recover? Does that sound right…?
Edit 3
setting auto.leader.rebalance.enable=false solved the problem, but now I have to manually rebalance. However, manually rebalancing when all partitions are caught up doesn't seem to pose any issues.
There has been some progress since the question was asked. As indicated in the comments the jira Kafka-7447 was created to track this issue. Though that issue specifically did not get closed yet, it was mentioned by several people that the problem was related to Kafka-8896 and that has actually been resolved now. (And those encountering the original issue, no longer have the problem after working with a version that included this improvement.)
As such, the issue is fixed, and using a version of Kafka 2.2.2 and above (or any version with that patch) should ensure you do not run into this problem.
I found this in my server.log:
[2016-03-29 18:24:59,349] INFO Scheduling log segment 3773408933 for log g17-4 for deletion. (kafka.log.Log)
[2016-03-29 18:24:59,349] INFO Scheduling log segment 3778380412 for log g17-4 for deletion. (kafka.log.Log)
[2016-03-29 18:24:59,403] WARN [ReplicaFetcherThread-3-4], Replica 2 for partition [g17,4] reset its fetch offset from 3501121050 to current leader 4's start offset 3501121050 (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2016-03-29 18:24:59,403] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-3-4], Current offset 3781428103 for partition [g17,4] out of range; reset offset to 3501121050 (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
[2016-03-29 18:25:27,816] INFO Rolled new log segment for 'g17-12' in 1 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2016-03-29 18:25:35,548] INFO Rolled new log segment for 'g18-10' in 2 ms. (kafka.log.Log)
[2016-03-29 18:25:35,707] INFO Partition [g18,10] on broker 2: Shrinking ISR for partition [g18,10] from 2,4 to 2 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
[2016-03-29 18:25:36,042] INFO Partition [g18,10] on broker 2: Expanding ISR for partition [g18,10] from 2 to 2,4 (kafka.cluster.Partition)
The offset of replication is larger than leader's, so the replication data will delete, and then copy the the data from leader.
But when copying, the cluster is very slow; some storm topology fail due to no response from Kafka.
How do I prevent this problem from occurring?
How do I slow down the replication rate, while replication is copying?