What is the meaning of retries in Kafka Producer API

Question

Hi,

What is the retries parameter meaning in Kafka Producer API and how to set it?

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Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

It defines how many time the producer retry after getting an error from the producer. The default value is 0. One another parameter is there retry.backoff.ms. It sets the duration between two retry. The default value is 100 ms.

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