[KAFKA-5828] Allow explicitly setting polling interval for Kafka connectors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: connect
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Behrang Saeedzadeh
• Created: 03/Sep/17 14:19
• Updated: 15/Oct/19 16:11
• Resolved: 15/Oct/19 16:11

Description

I have a Kafka cluster deployed in our internal data center and a Kafka Connect server deployed in AWS that gets data records from a topic on the Kafka cluster and writes them into a Kinesis stream.

We want to ensure that our Kafka connect server does not saturate the available bandwidth between our internal data center and AWS.

Using max.partition.fetch.bytes we can limit the upper bound of data that can be fetched in each poll call. If we can also configure the poll interval, then we can limit how much data is transferred per partition per second.