kafka config_error ai_generated true

RecordTooLargeException: message size exceeds max

ID: kafka/record-too-large

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85%Fix Rate
88%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

Message exceeds broker or topic max.message.bytes.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Increase message.max.bytes on broker AND topic AND producer 
    All three must be aligned
  2. 88% success Compress messages at producer: compression.type=lz4

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Set max.message.bytes to unlimited 85% fail

    Memory pressure and GC issues on broker

  2. Compress on broker side only 78% fail

    Producer still fails sending