Is it a bad idea to use periods within a consumer group name? "my-service.topic1_consumer_group"

[Jeff Widman <je...@netskope.com>]

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.

Re: Is it a bad idea to use periods within a consumer group name? "my-service.topic1_consumer_group"

[Jeff Widman <je...@netskope.com>]

Thanks Praveen.

I realized I'd been mis-remembering the warning that I'd been seeing. The
limitation is for topic names, not consumer group names:

*WARNING: Due to limitations in metric names, topics with a period ('.') or
underscore ('_') could collide. To avoid issues it is best to use either,
but not both.*

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Praveen <pr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <je...@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.
> >
>

Re: Is it a bad idea to use periods within a consumer group name? "my-service.topic1_consumer_group"

[Praveen <pr...@gmail.com>]

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 <je...@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.
>