Frequent CommitFailedException after upgrading to kafka server 3.2.0

The kafka consumer listens to specific partitions of the topic through static partition assignment. The issue started once we upgraded our kafka server to 3.2.0. If I revert to 2.8.0, things are fine and no such issue. If I remove the static partition assignment, then also things work.

I have tried increasing the max.poll.interval.ms to a high value and even set the max.poll.records to 1. That also doesn’t seem to solve the issue.

So I suspect some issue with static partition assignment with Kafka 3.2.0.

Exception stack trace -

org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.CommitFailedException: Commit cannot be completed since the group has already rebalanced and assigned the partitions to another member. This means that the time between subsequent calls to poll() was longer than the configured max.poll.interval.ms, which typically implies that the poll loop is spending too much time message processing. You can address this either by increasing max.poll.interval.ms or by reducing the maximum size of batches returned in poll() with max.poll.records. at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:1288) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:1189) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:1196) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:1171) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture$1.onSuccess(RequestFuture.java:206) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.fireSuccess(RequestFuture.java:169) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.complete(RequestFuture.java:129) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient$RequestFutureCompletionHandler.fireCompletion(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:602) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.firePendingCompletedRequests(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:412) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:297) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:236) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollForFetches(KafkaConsumer.java:1297) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:1238) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:1211) ~[kafka-clients-3.1.1.jar:?] at reactor.kafka.receiver.internals.ConsumerEventLoop$PollEvent.run(ConsumerEventLoop.java:310) ~[reactor-kafka-1.3.11.jar:1.3.11] at reactor.core.scheduler.SchedulerTask.call(SchedulerTask.java:68) ~[reactor-core-3.4.19.jar:3.4.19] at reactor.core.scheduler.SchedulerTask.call(SchedulerTask.java:28) ~[reactor-core-3.4.19.jar:3.4.19] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) ~[?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:304) ~[?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) ~[?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) ~[?:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) ~[?:?] Suppressed: java.lang.Exception: #block terminated with an error at reactor.core.publisher.BlockingSingleSubscriber.blockingGet(BlockingSingleSubscriber.java:99) ~[reactor-core-3.4.19.jar:3.4.19] at reactor.core.publisher.Flux.blockLast(Flux.java:2645) ~[reactor-core-3.4.19.jar:3.4.19]