Kafka kafka.common.MessageSizeTooLargeException at

Question

For some larger messages I encountered the following error:

kafka.common.MessageSizeTooLargeException: Message size is 1185198 bytes which exceeds the maximum configured message size of 1000012.

So as per this thread increased the message size at broker and consumer:

fetch.message.max.bytes=10485760
replica.fetch.max.bytes=10485760
message.max.bytes=10485760

added to config/server.properties

But then the messages goes through but consumer error out:

[2015-08-26 21:08:08,722] ERROR Error processing message, stopping consumer:  (kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$)
kafka.common.MessageSizeTooLargeException: Found a message larger than the maximum fetch size of this consumer on topic xyz partition 0 at fetch offset 29. Increase the fetch size, or decrease the maximum message size the broker will allow.
    at kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator.makeNext(ConsumerIterator.scala:90)
    at kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator.makeNext(ConsumerIterator.scala:33)
    at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.maybeComputeNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:66)
    at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.hasNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:58)
    at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:660)
    at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.foreach(IteratorTemplate.scala:32)
    at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:73)
    at kafka.consumer.KafkaStream.foreach(KafkaStream.scala:25)
    at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala:166)
    at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala)
Consumed 3 messages

It seems the consumer is not picking up fetch.message.max.bytes=10485760

kafka_2.9.1-0.8.2.1

Any pointers?

Answer 1

You shouldn't put fetch.message.max.bytes to config/server.properties but to your ConsumerConfig (see here for details). If you are using console consumer you may pass a --consumer.config consumer.properties flag where consumer.properties file will contain this config value.