We are running a 3 broker Kafka 0.10.0.1 cluster. We have a java app which spawns many consumer threads consuming from different topics. For every topic we have specified different consumer-group.
A lot of times I see that whenever this application is restarted one or more CGs take more than 5 minutes to receive partition assignment. Till that time consumers for that topic don't consume anything. If I go to Kafka broker and run consumer-groups.sh and describe that particular CG I see that it is rebalancing. In server.log I see such lines
Preparing to stabilize group otp-sms-consumer Stabilized group otp-sms-consumer
And between these two logs there is usually a gap of about 5 minutes or more. On consumer side when I turn trace level logs, there is literally no activity during this pause time. After a couple of minutes a lot of activity starts. There is time critical data stored in that topic like otp-sms and we cannot tolerate such long delays. What can be the reason for such long rebalances.
Here's our consumer config
auto.commit.interval.ms = 3000
auto.offset.reset = latest
bootstrap.servers = [x.x.x.x:9092, x.x.x.x:9092, x.x.x.x:9092]
check.crcs = true
client.id =
connections.max.idle.ms = 540000
enable.auto.commit = true
exclude.internal.topics = true
fetch.max.bytes = 52428800
fetch.max.wait.ms = 500
fetch.min.bytes = 1
group.id = otp-notifications-consumer
heartbeat.interval.ms = 3000
interceptor.classes = null
key.deserializer = class org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
max.partition.fetch.bytes = 1048576
max.poll.interval.ms = 300000
max.poll.records = 50
metadata.max.age.ms = 300000
metric.reporters = []
metrics.num.samples = 2
metrics.sample.window.ms = 30000
partition.assignment.strategy = [class org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.RangeAssignor]
receive.buffer.bytes = 65536
reconnect.backoff.ms = 50
request.timeout.ms = 305000
retry.backoff.ms = 100
sasl.kerberos.kinit.cmd = /usr/bin/kinit
sasl.kerberos.min.time.before.relogin = 60000
sasl.kerberos.service.name = null
sasl.kerberos.ticket.renew.jitter = 0.05
sasl.kerberos.ticket.renew.window.factor = 0.8
sasl.mechanism = GSSAPI
security.protocol = SSL
send.buffer.bytes = 131072
session.timeout.ms = 300000
ssl.cipher.suites = null
ssl.enabled.protocols = [TLSv1.2, TLSv1.1, TLSv1]
ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm = null
ssl.key.password = null
ssl.keymanager.algorithm = SunX509
ssl.keystore.location = null
ssl.keystore.password = null
ssl.keystore.type = JKS
ssl.protocol = TLS
ssl.provider = null
ssl.secure.random.implementation = null
ssl.trustmanager.algorithm = PKIX
ssl.truststore.location = /x/x/client.truststore.jks
ssl.truststore.password = [hidden]
ssl.truststore.type = JKS
value.deserializer = class org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
Please help.