[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-3806) Adjust default values of log.retention.hours and offsets.retention.minutes

["Michal Turek (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Michal Turek created KAFKA-3806:
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             Summary: Adjust default values of log.retention.hours and offsets.retention.minutes
                 Key: KAFKA-3806
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3806
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: config
    Affects Versions: 0.10.0.0, 0.9.0.1
            Reporter: Michal Turek
            Priority: Minor


Combination of default values of log.retention.hours (168 hours = 7 days) and offsets.retention.minutes (1440 minutes = 1 day) may be dangerous in special cases. Offset retention should be always greater than log retention.

We have observed the following scenario and issue:

- Producing of data to a topic was disabled two days ago by producer update, topic wasn't deleted.
- Consumer consumed all data and properly committed offsets to Kafka.
- Consumer made no more offset commits for that topic because there was no more incoming data and there was nothing to confirm. (We have auto-commit disabled, I'm not sure how behaves enabled auto-commit.)
- After one day: Kafka cleared too old offsets according to offsets.retention.minutes.
- After two days: Long-term running consumer was restarted after update, it didn't find any committed offsets for that topic since they were deleted by offsets.retention.minutes so it started consuming from the beginning.
- The messages were still in Kafka due to larger log.retention.hours, about 5 days of messages were read again.


Known workaround to solve this issue:

- Explicitly configure log.retention.hours and offsets.retention.minutes, don't use defaults.


Proposals:

- Prolong default value of offsets.retention.minutes to be at least twice larger than log.retention.hours.
- Check these values during Kafka startup and log a warning if offsets.retention.minutes is smaller than log.retention.hours.
- Add a note to migration guide about differences between storing of offsets in ZooKeeper and Kafka (http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#upgrade).



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