Feature request: Connection error handling about racecar HOT 5 CLOSED

Do you have a monitoring solution set up in addition to your exception tracker? Connection errors are not exceptional in Kafka, so typically you want to use metrics based alerts rather than exception trackers.

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Do you have a monitoring solution set up in addition to your exception tracker?

Not yet, still thinking how to make it right. The only option I can think of is detecting if process/container exit with error code too often

Connection errors are not exceptional in Kafka

I got some kafka related errors too, e.g. Kafka::NoPartitionsAssignedError, it can connect to port on remote server, but can not start receiving data

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@Paxa the no partition error occurs when you have more consumers than partitions in a topic.

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I would recommend using e.g. Datadog or Librato with Statsd to track metrics. Connection errors is one metric published by ruby-kafka.

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@dasch Thank you!

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