Serialization exception for Confluent Cloud

Hi,
I’m getting the below exception, I’m not able to figure out why this exception occurs. Can you please specify what this error denotes and solution for this ?

Serialization of kafka metrics failed:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Message size to large. Maximum allowed: 5242880 | Received: 8951417
at dJ.e$b.respond(Unknown Source)
at o.b$a.receive(Unknown Source)
at dJ.e.a(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask$TrustedFutureInterruptibleTask.runInterruptibly(Unknown Source)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.InterruptibleTask.run(Unknown Source)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at com.codahale.metrics.InstrumentedExecutorService$InstrumentedRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Thanks in advance.