[KAFKA-17141] "DescribeTopicPartitions API is not supported" warning message confuses users

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.9.0
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: PoAn Yang
• Reporter: Luke Chen
• Created: 16/Jul/24 02:21
• Updated: 18/Jul/24 10:00
• Resolved: 18/Jul/24 10:00

Description

When running describeTopics admin API, we'll try to invoke DescribeTopicPartitions request, and fallback to metadata request if not supported, and then log a warning message:

2024-07-15 19:03:34 WARN  KafkaAdminClient:2293 - [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-17] The DescribeTopicPartitions API is not supported, using Metadata API to describe topics.

 

When seeing this warning message, users might think something is wrong with this call. We should try to improve it. Maybe:
1. log it with an INFO level or DEBUG level

2. Make the message clear to not to confuse users

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #16612