kafka runtime_error ai_generated true

ProducerFencedException: transaction timeout

ID: kafka/transaction-timeout

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78%Fix Rate
82%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

Kafka transaction exceeded timeout before commit.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Keep transactions short and commit promptly
  2. 88% success Set transaction.timeout.ms slightly above expected max processing time

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Set transaction.timeout.ms very high 78% fail

    Blocks partition for duration

  2. Disable transactions 80% fail

    Loses exactly-once semantics