We are experiencing an issue with Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2 (MM2) where it is creating heartbeat topics in a recursive manner. This results of heartbeat topics, which is not the intended behavior. This issue specifically arises when we enable reverse replication; one-way replication works fine. Is…

Bidirectional load test was successful. We used below config file: ## Mirror Maker Configurations # name of the connector, e.g. "us-west->us-east" name = A-B # Maximum number of tasks to use for this connector tasks.max = 3 # Setting replication factor of newly created remote topics replication.…

just testing the setup would be so kind and shared the exact config (without passwords etc)?

[image] Mirrormaker2 creating heartbeats topics recursively in loop in active-active mode Kafka Connect We are experiencing an issue with Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2 (MM2) where it is creating heartbeat topics in a recursive manner. This results of heartbeat top…

Sure, Thank you Will wait for your response

was not able to get it running either let me check something else

running within docker mirrormaker kafka 3.4 → 2.8.1 works basically as expected kafka-topics -list --bootstrap-server localhost:9095 A.checkpoints.internal A.heartbeats __consumer_offsets heartbeats mm2-configs.A.internal mm2-offset-syncs.A.internal mm2-offsets.A.internal mm2-status.A.internal sou…

Could you please share the configuration file you’re using? We suspect that there might be an issue with the configuration. Additionally, was your test executed in active-active mode? We encountered issues when enabling reverse replication from version 3.4 to 2.8.1, although forward replication fro…

I’ve used the copy you provided above. clusters = A, B # connection information for each cluster # This is a comma separated host:port pairs for each cluster # for e.g. "A_host1:9092, A_host2:9092, A_host3:9092" A.bootstrap.servers = localhost:9094 B.bootstrap.servers = localhost:9095 # enable an…

We are using open source Apche Kafka on CentOS 7.

Mirrormaker2 creating heartbeats topics recursively in loop in active-active mode

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Ismail 26 June 2024 12:29 20

Many thanks for the update.
Sure, no worries.
Will wait for your response

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