[FLINK-8086] FlinkKafkaProducer011 can permanently fail in recovery through ProducerFencedException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Assignee: Piotr Nowojski
• Reporter: Stefan Richter
• Created: 15/Nov/17 14:50
• Updated: 20/Nov/17 12:37
• Resolved: 20/Nov/17 12:34

Description

Chaos monkey test in a cluster environment can permanently bring down our FlinkKafkaProducer011.

Typically, after a small number of randomly killed TMs, the data generator job is no longer able to recover from a checkpoint because of the following problem:

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.ProducerFencedException: Producer attempted an operation with an old epoch. Either there is a newer producer with the same transactionalId, or the producer's transaction has been expired by the broker.

The problem is reproduceable and happened for me in every run after the chaos monkey killed a couple of TMs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5030