Information

This site will undergo a brief period of maintenance on Friday, 18 December at 12:30 AM Central/12:00 PM IST. During a 30 minute window, site availability may be intermittent.

Troubleshooting monitoring issues


The following table contains the issues you might face while monitoring your Apache Kafka environment and the resolutions.

Issue

Resolution

Connection failed for - <Kafka-host/service-name>:9092, Error - Failed to create new KafkaAdminClient

Check whether the <host/service-name> is pingable. In case of container, provide the service name from the pod namespace.

TimeoutException - Connection failed for - < Kafka-host/service-name >:9092, Kafka environment connection timeout.

Check whether the <host/service-name> is pingable and Kafka servers are responding in a timely manner.

Connection failed for - <host/service-name>:9092, Error - org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for a node assignment. Call: listNodes

Check whether the <host/service-name> is pingable and Kafka servers are responding in a timely manner.

Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub: javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectIOException: Exception creating connection to: <host/service-name>; nested exception is:

java.net.SocketException: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?): connect]      

java.lang.SecurityException: Authentication failed! Credentials required

Check whether JMX authentication is provided in Kafka monitoring policy and is correct.

SSL error -

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InvalidConfigurationException: SSL key store is specified, but key store password is not specified

org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to load SSL keystore as of type JKS

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InvalidConfigurationException: SSL key store is not specified, but key store password is specified

Check whether SSL authentication is provided in Kafka monitoring policy and all the required fields are correct.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*

BMC PATROL for Apache Kafka 23.2