Configuration OptionsΒΆ

In addition to the settings specified here, the Kafka REST Proxy accepts the settings for the Java producer and consumer (currently the new producer and old consumer). Use these to override the default settings of producers and consumers in the REST Proxy. When configuration options are exposed in the REST API, priority is given to settings in the user request, then to overrides provided as configuration options, and finally falls back to the default values provided by the Java Kafka clients.

id

Unique ID for this REST server instance. This is used in generating unique IDs for consumers that do not specify their ID. The ID is empty by default, which makes a single server setup easier to get up and running, but is not safe for multi-server deployments where automatic consumer IDs are used.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “”
  • Importance: high
schema.registry.url

The base URL for the schema registry that should be used by the Avro serializer.

zookeeper.connect

Specifies the ZooKeeper connection string in the form hostname:port where host and port are the host and port of a ZooKeeper server. To allow connecting through other ZooKeeper nodes when that ZooKeeper machine is down you can also specify multiple hosts in the form hostname1:port1,hostname2:port2,hostname3:port3.

The server may also have a ZooKeeper chroot path as part of it’s ZooKeeper connection string which puts its data under some path in the global ZooKeeper namespace. If so the consumer should use the same chroot path in its connection string. For example to give a chroot path of /chroot/path you would give the connection string as hostname1:port1,hostname2:port2,hostname3:port3/chroot/path.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “localhost:2181”
  • Importance: high
consumer.request.max.bytes

Maximum number of bytes in unencoded message keys and values returned by a single request. This can be used by administrators to limit the memory used by a single consumer and to control the memory usage required to decode responses on clients that cannot perform a streaming decode. Note that the actual payload will be larger due to overhead from base64 encoding the response data and from JSON encoding the entire response.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 67108864
  • Importance: medium
consumer.request.timeout.ms

The maximum total time to wait for messages for a request if the maximum number of messages has not yet been reached.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1000
  • Importance: medium
consumer.threads

Number of threads to run consumer requests on.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: medium
host.name

The host name used to generate absolute URLs in responses. If empty, the default canonical hostname is used

  • Type: string
  • Default: “”
  • Importance: medium
consumer.instance.timeout.ms

Amount of idle time before a consumer instance is automatically destroyed.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 300000
  • Importance: low
consumer.iterator.backoff.ms

Amount of time to backoff when an iterator runs out of data. If a consumer has a dedicated worker thread, this is effectively the maximum error for the entire request timeout. It should be small enough to closely target the timeout, but large enough to avoid busy waiting.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 50
  • Importance: low
consumer.iterator.timeout.ms

Timeout for blocking consumer iterator operations. This should be set to a small enough value that it is possible to effectively peek() on the iterator.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: low
debug

Boolean indicating whether extra debugging information is generated in some error response entities.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Importance: low
metric.reporters

A list of classes to use as metrics reporters. Implementing the <code>MetricReporter</code> interface allows plugging in classes that will be notified of new metric creation. The JmxReporter is always included to register JMX statistics.

  • Type: list
  • Default: []
  • Importance: low
metrics.jmx.prefix

Prefix to apply to metric names for the default JMX reporter.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “kafka-rest”
  • Importance: low
metrics.num.samples

The number of samples maintained to compute metrics.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 2
  • Importance: low
metrics.sample.window.ms

The metrics system maintains a configurable number of samples over a fixed window size. This configuration controls the size of the window. For example we might maintain two samples each measured over a 30 second period. When a window expires we erase and overwrite the oldest window.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 30000
  • Importance: low
port

Port to listen on for new connections.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 8082
  • Importance: low
producer.threads

Number of threads to run produce requests on.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 5
  • Importance: low
request.logger.name

Name of the SLF4J logger to write the NCSA Common Log Format request log.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “io.confluent.rest-utils.requests”
  • Importance: low
response.mediatype.default

The default response media type that should be used if no specify types are requested in an Accept header.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “application/vnd.kafka.v1+json”
  • Importance: low
response.mediatype.preferred

An ordered list of the server’s preferred media types used for responses, from most preferred to least.

  • Type: list
  • Default: [application/vnd.kafka.v1+json, application/vnd.kafka+json, application/json]
  • Importance: low
shutdown.graceful.ms

Amount of time to wait after a shutdown request for outstanding requests to complete.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1000
  • Importance: low