Kafka Incident Stories

A compiled list of links to public incident/interesting stories related to Kafka. Most recent publications on top.

• Kafka Migration and Lessons Learned

  • date: 08-April-2021
  • involved: Tired Storage, Migration
  • impact: lessons learn

• Kafka Jumbo cluster cannot accept connections

  • date: 02-April-2019
  • involved: OOM, Network bandwidth
  • impact: outage

• Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage

  • date: 31-March-2015
  • involved: CPU, Disk I/O, Network bandwidth
  • kafka version: 0.7
  • impact: outages