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id: kafka-ingestion
title: "Apache Kafka ingestion"
sidebar_label: "Apache Kafka"
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The Kafka indexing service enables the configuration of *supervisors* on the Overlord, which facilitate ingestion from
Kafka by managing the creation and lifetime of Kafka indexing tasks. These indexing tasks read events using Kafka's own
partition and offset mechanism and are therefore able to provide guarantees of exactly-once ingestion.
The supervisor oversees the state of the indexing tasks to coordinate handoffs,
manage failures, and ensure that the scalability and replication requirements are maintained.

This service is provided in the `druid-kafka-indexing-service` core Apache Druid extension (see
[Including Extensions](../../development/extensions.md#loading-extensions)).

> The Kafka indexing service supports transactional topics which were introduced in Kafka 0.11.x. These changes make the
> Kafka consumer that Druid uses incompatible with older brokers. Ensure that your Kafka brokers are version 0.11.x or
> better before using this functionality. Refer [Kafka upgrade guide](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#upgrade)
> if you are using older version of Kafka brokers.

## Tutorial

This page contains reference documentation for Apache Kafka-based ingestion.
For a walk-through instead, check out the [Loading from Apache Kafka](../../tutorials/tutorial-kafka.md) tutorial.

## Submitting a Supervisor Spec

The Kafka indexing service requires that the `druid-kafka-indexing-service` extension be loaded on both the Overlord and the
MiddleManagers. A supervisor for a dataSource is started by submitting a supervisor spec via HTTP POST to
`http://<OVERLORD_IP>:<OVERLORD_PORT>/druid/indexer/v1/supervisor`, for example:

```
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @supervisor-spec.json http://localhost:8090/druid/indexer/v1/supervisor
```

A sample supervisor spec is shown below:

```json
{
  "type": "kafka",
  "dataSchema": {
    "dataSource": "metrics-kafka",
    "timestampSpec": {
      "column": "timestamp",
      "format": "auto"
    },
    "dimensionsSpec": {
      "dimensions": [],
      "dimensionExclusions": [
        "timestamp",
        "value"
      ]
    },
    "metricsSpec": [
      {
        "name": "count",
        "type": "count"
      },
      {
        "name": "value_sum",
        "fieldName": "value",
        "type": "doubleSum"
      },
      {
        "name": "value_min",
        "fieldName": "value",
        "type": "doubleMin"
      },
      {
        "name": "value_max",
        "fieldName": "value",
        "type": "doubleMax"
      }
    ],
    "granularitySpec": {
      "type": "uniform",
      "segmentGranularity": "HOUR",
      "queryGranularity": "NONE"
    }
  },
  "ioConfig": {
    "topic": "metrics",
    "inputFormat": {
      "type": "json"
    },
    "consumerProperties": {
      "bootstrap.servers": "localhost:9092"
    },
    "taskCount": 1,
    "replicas": 1,
    "taskDuration": "PT1H"
  },
  "tuningConfig": {
    "type": "kafka",
    "maxRowsPerSegment": 5000000
  }
}
```

## Supervisor Configuration

|Field|Description|Required|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|`type`|The supervisor type, this should always be `kafka`.|yes|
|`dataSchema`|The schema that will be used by the Kafka indexing task during ingestion. See [`dataSchema`](../../ingestion/index.md#dataschema) for details.|yes|
|`ioConfig`|A KafkaSupervisorIOConfig object for configuring Kafka connection and I/O-related settings for the supervisor and indexing task. See [KafkaSupervisorIOConfig](#kafkasupervisorioconfig) below.|yes|
|`tuningConfig`|A KafkaSupervisorTuningConfig object for configuring performance-related settings for the supervisor and indexing tasks. See [KafkaSupervisorTuningConfig](#kafkasupervisortuningconfig) below.|no|

### KafkaSupervisorIOConfig

|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|`topic`|String|The Kafka topic to read from. This must be a specific topic as topic patterns are not supported.|yes|
|`inputFormat`|Object|[`inputFormat`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#input-format) to specify how to parse input data. See [the below section](#specifying-data-format) for details about specifying the input format.|yes|
|`consumerProperties`|Map<String, Object>|A map of properties to be passed to the Kafka consumer. This must contain a property `bootstrap.servers` with a list of Kafka brokers in the form: `<BROKER_1>:<PORT_1>,<BROKER_2>:<PORT_2>,...`. For SSL connections, the `keystore`, `truststore` and `key` passwords can be provided as a [Password Provider](../../operations/password-provider.md) or String password.|yes|
|`pollTimeout`|Long|The length of time to wait for the Kafka consumer to poll records, in milliseconds|no (default == 100)|
|`replicas`|Integer|The number of replica sets, where 1 means a single set of tasks (no replication). Replica tasks will always be assigned to different workers to provide resiliency against process failure.|no (default == 1)|
|`taskCount`|Integer|The maximum number of *reading* tasks in a *replica set*. This means that the maximum number of reading tasks will be `taskCount * replicas` and the total number of tasks (*reading* + *publishing*) will be higher than this. See [Capacity Planning](#capacity-planning) below for more details. The number of reading tasks will be less than `taskCount` if `taskCount > {numKafkaPartitions}`.|no (default == 1)|
|`taskDuration`|ISO8601 Period|The length of time before tasks stop reading and begin publishing their segment.|no (default == PT1H)|
|`startDelay`|ISO8601 Period|The period to wait before the supervisor starts managing tasks.|no (default == PT5S)|
|`period`|ISO8601 Period|How often the supervisor will execute its management logic. Note that the supervisor will also run in response to certain events (such as tasks succeeding, failing, and reaching their taskDuration) so this value specifies the maximum time between iterations.|no (default == PT30S)|
|`useEarliestOffset`|Boolean|If a supervisor is managing a dataSource for the first time, it will obtain a set of starting offsets from Kafka. This flag determines whether it retrieves the earliest or latest offsets in Kafka. Under normal circumstances, subsequent tasks will start from where the previous segments ended so this flag will only be used on first run.|no (default == false)|
|`completionTimeout`|ISO8601 Period|The length of time to wait before declaring a publishing task as failed and terminating it. If this is set too low, your tasks may never publish. The publishing clock for a task begins roughly after `taskDuration` elapses.|no (default == PT30M)|
|`lateMessageRejectionStartDateTime`|ISO8601 DateTime|Configure tasks to reject messages with timestamps earlier than this date time; for example if this is set to `2016-01-01T11:00Z` and the supervisor creates a task at *2016-01-01T12:00Z*, messages with timestamps earlier than *2016-01-01T11:00Z* will be dropped. This may help prevent concurrency issues if your data stream has late messages and you have multiple pipelines that need to operate on the same segments (e.g. a realtime and a nightly batch ingestion pipeline).|no (default == none)|
|`lateMessageRejectionPeriod`|ISO8601 Period|Configure tasks to reject messages with timestamps earlier than this period before the task was created; for example if this is set to `PT1H` and the supervisor creates a task at *2016-01-01T12:00Z*, messages with timestamps earlier than *2016-01-01T11:00Z* will be dropped. This may help prevent concurrency issues if your data stream has late messages and you have multiple pipelines that need to operate on the same segments (e.g. a realtime and a nightly batch ingestion pipeline). Please note that only one of `lateMessageRejectionPeriod` or `lateMessageRejectionStartDateTime` can be specified.|no (default == none)|
|`earlyMessageRejectionPeriod`|ISO8601 Period|Configure tasks to reject messages with timestamps later than this period after the task reached its taskDuration; for example if this is set to `PT1H`, the taskDuration is set to `PT1H` and the supervisor creates a task at *2016-01-01T12:00Z*, messages with timestamps later than *2016-01-01T14:00Z* will be dropped. **Note:** Tasks sometimes run past their task duration, for example, in cases of supervisor failover. Setting earlyMessageRejectionPeriod too low may cause messages to be dropped unexpectedly whenever a task runs past its originally configured task duration.|no (default == none)|

#### Specifying data format

Kafka indexing service supports both [`inputFormat`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#input-format) and [`parser`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#parser) to specify the data format.
The `inputFormat` is a new and recommended way to specify the data format for Kafka indexing service,
but unfortunately, it doesn't support all data formats supported by the legacy `parser`.
(They will be supported in the future.)

The supported `inputFormat`s include [`csv`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#csv),
[`delimited`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#tsv-delimited), and [`json`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#json).
You can also read [`avro_stream`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#avro-stream-parser),
[`protobuf`](../../ingestion/data-formats.md#protobuf-parser),
and [`thrift`](../extensions-contrib/thrift.md) formats using `parser`.

<a name="tuningconfig"></a>

### KafkaSupervisorTuningConfig

The tuningConfig is optional and default parameters will be used if no tuningConfig is specified.

| Field                             | Type           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Required                                                                                                     |
|-----------------------------------|----------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `type`                            | String         | The indexing task type, this should always be `kafka`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | yes                                                                                                          |
| `maxRowsInMemory`                 | Integer        | The number of rows to aggregate before persisting. This number is the post-aggregation rows, so it is not equivalent to the number of input events, but the number of aggregated rows that those events result in. This is used to manage the required JVM heap size. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists). Normally user does not need to set this, but depending on the nature of data, if rows are short in terms of bytes, user may not want to store a million rows in memory and this value should be set.                                                                           | no (default == 1000000)                                                                                      |
| `maxBytesInMemory`                | Long           | The number of bytes to aggregate in heap memory before persisting. This is based on a rough estimate of memory usage and not actual usage. Normally this is computed internally and user does not need to set it. The maximum heap memory usage for indexing is maxBytesInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | no (default == One-sixth of max JVM memory)                                                                  |
| `maxRowsPerSegment`               | Integer        | The number of rows to aggregate into a segment; this number is post-aggregation rows. Handoff will happen either if `maxRowsPerSegment` or `maxTotalRows` is hit or every `intermediateHandoffPeriod`, whichever happens earlier.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | no (default == 5000000)                                                                                      |
| `maxTotalRows`                    | Long           | The number of rows to aggregate across all segments; this number is post-aggregation rows. Handoff will happen either if `maxRowsPerSegment` or `maxTotalRows` is hit or every `intermediateHandoffPeriod`, whichever happens earlier.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | no (default == unlimited)                                                                                    |
| `intermediatePersistPeriod`       | ISO8601 Period | The period that determines the rate at which intermediate persists occur.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | no (default == PT10M)                                                                                        |
| `maxPendingPersists`              | Integer        | Maximum number of persists that can be pending but not started. If this limit would be exceeded by a new intermediate persist, ingestion will block until the currently-running persist finishes. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | no (default == 0, meaning one persist can be running concurrently with ingestion, and none can be queued up) |
| `indexSpec`                       | Object         | Tune how data is indexed. See [IndexSpec](#indexspec) for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | no                                                                                                           |
| `indexSpecForIntermediatePersists`|                | Defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time for intermediate persisted temporary segments. This can be used to disable dimension/metric compression on intermediate segments to reduce memory required for final merging. However, disabling compression on intermediate segments might increase page cache use while they are used before getting merged into final segment published, see [IndexSpec](#indexspec) for possible values.                                                                                                                                                                                     | no (default = same as indexSpec)                                                                             |
| `reportParseExceptions`           | Boolean        | *DEPRECATED*. If true, exceptions encountered during parsing will be thrown and will halt ingestion; if false, unparseable rows and fields will be skipped. Setting `reportParseExceptions` to true will override existing configurations for `maxParseExceptions` and `maxSavedParseExceptions`, setting `maxParseExceptions` to 0 and limiting `maxSavedParseExceptions` to no more than 1.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | no (default == false)                                                                                        |
| `handoffConditionTimeout`         | Long           | Milliseconds to wait for segment handoff. It must be >= 0, where 0 means to wait forever.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | no (default == 0)                                                                                            |
| `resetOffsetAutomatically`        | Boolean        | Controls behavior when Druid needs to read Kafka messages that are no longer available (i.e. when OffsetOutOfRangeException is encountered).<br/><br/>If false, the exception will bubble up, which will cause your tasks to fail and ingestion to halt. If this occurs, manual intervention is required to correct the situation; potentially using the [Reset Supervisor API](../../operations/api-reference.html#supervisors). This mode is useful for production, since it will make you aware of issues with ingestion.<br/><br/>If true, Druid will automatically reset to the earlier or latest offset available in Kafka, based on the value of the `useEarliestOffset` property (earliest if true, latest if false). Please note that this can lead to data being _DROPPED_ (if `useEarliestOffset` is false) or _DUPLICATED_ (if `useEarliestOffset` is true) without your knowledge. Messages will be logged indicating that a reset has occurred, but ingestion will continue. This mode is useful for non-production situations, since it will make Druid attempt to recover from problems automatically, even if they lead to quiet dropping or duplicating of data.<br/><br/>This feature behaves similarly to the Kafka `auto.offset.reset` consumer property. | no (default == false) |
| `workerThreads`                   | Integer        | The number of threads that the supervisor uses to handle requests/responses for worker tasks, along with any other internal asynchronous operation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | no (default == min(10, taskCount))                                                                           |
| `chatThreads`                     | Integer        | The number of threads that will be used for communicating with indexing tasks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | no (default == min(10, taskCount * replicas))                                                                |
| `chatRetries`                     | Integer        | The number of times HTTP requests to indexing tasks will be retried before considering tasks unresponsive.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | no (default == 8)                                                                                            |
| `httpTimeout`                     | ISO8601 Period | How long to wait for a HTTP response from an indexing task.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | no (default == PT10S)                                                                                        |
| `shutdownTimeout`                 | ISO8601 Period | How long to wait for the supervisor to attempt a graceful shutdown of tasks before exiting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | no (default == PT80S)                                                                                        |
| `offsetFetchPeriod`               | ISO8601 Period | How often the supervisor queries Kafka and the indexing tasks to fetch current offsets and calculate lag.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | no (default == PT30S, min == PT5S)                                                                           |
| `segmentWriteOutMediumFactory`    | Object         | Segment write-out medium to use when creating segments. See below for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | no (not specified by default, the value from `druid.peon.defaultSegmentWriteOutMediumFactory.type` is used)  |
| `intermediateHandoffPeriod`       | ISO8601 Period | How often the tasks should hand off segments. Handoff will happen either if `maxRowsPerSegment` or `maxTotalRows` is hit or every `intermediateHandoffPeriod`, whichever happens earlier.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | no (default == P2147483647D)                                                                                 |
| `logParseExceptions`              | Boolean        | If true, log an error message when a parsing exception occurs, containing information about the row where the error occurred.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | no, default == false                                                                                         |
| `maxParseExceptions`              | Integer        | The maximum number of parse exceptions that can occur before the task halts ingestion and fails. Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | no, unlimited default                                                                                        |
| `maxSavedParseExceptions`         | Integer        | When a parse exception occurs, Druid can keep track of the most recent parse exceptions. "maxSavedParseExceptions" limits how many exception instances will be saved. These saved exceptions will be made available after the task finishes in the [task completion report](../../ingestion/tasks.md#reports). Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | no, default == 0                                                                                             |

#### IndexSpec

|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|bitmap|Object|Compression format for bitmap indexes. Should be a JSON object. See [Bitmap types](#bitmap-types) below for options.|no (defaults to Roaring)|
|dimensionCompression|String|Compression format for dimension columns. Choose from `LZ4`, `LZF`, or `uncompressed`.|no (default == `LZ4`)|
|metricCompression|String|Compression format for primitive type metric columns. Choose from `LZ4`, `LZF`, `uncompressed`, or `none`.|no (default == `LZ4`)|
|longEncoding|String|Encoding format for metric and dimension columns with type long. Choose from `auto` or `longs`. `auto` encodes the values using offset or lookup table depending on column cardinality, and store them with variable size. `longs` stores the value as is with 8 bytes each.|no (default == `longs`)|

##### Bitmap types

For Roaring bitmaps:

|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|`type`|String|Must be `roaring`.|yes|
|`compressRunOnSerialization`|Boolean|Use a run-length encoding where it is estimated as more space efficient.|no (default == `true`)|

For Concise bitmaps:

|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|`type`|String|Must be `concise`.|yes|

#### SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory

|Field|Type|Description|Required|
|-----|----|-----------|--------|
|`type`|String|See [Additional Peon Configuration: SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](../../configuration/index.html#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory) for explanation and available options.|yes|

## Operations

This section gives descriptions of how some supervisor APIs work specifically in Kafka Indexing Service.
For all supervisor APIs, please check [Supervisor APIs](../../operations/api-reference.html#supervisors).

### Getting Supervisor Status Report

`GET /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/status` returns a snapshot report of the current state of the tasks managed by the given supervisor. This includes the latest
offsets as reported by Kafka, the consumer lag per partition, as well as the aggregate lag of all partitions. The
consumer lag per partition may be reported as negative values if the supervisor has not received a recent latest offset
response from Kafka. The aggregate lag value will always be >= 0.

The status report also contains the supervisor's state and a list of recently thrown exceptions (reported as
`recentErrors`, whose max size can be controlled using the `druid.supervisor.maxStoredExceptionEvents` configuration).
There are two fields related to the supervisor's state - `state` and `detailedState`. The `state` field will always be
one of a small number of generic states that are applicable to any type of supervisor, while the `detailedState` field
will contain a more descriptive, implementation-specific state that may provide more insight into the supervisor's
activities than the generic `state` field.

The list of possible `state` values are: [`PENDING`, `RUNNING`, `SUSPENDED`, `STOPPING`, `UNHEALTHY_SUPERVISOR`, `UNHEALTHY_TASKS`]

The list of `detailedState` values and their corresponding `state` mapping is as follows:

|Detailed State|Corresponding State|Description|
|--------------|-------------------|-----------|
|UNHEALTHY_SUPERVISOR|UNHEALTHY_SUPERVISOR|The supervisor has encountered errors on the past `druid.supervisor.unhealthinessThreshold` iterations|
|UNHEALTHY_TASKS|UNHEALTHY_TASKS|The last `druid.supervisor.taskUnhealthinessThreshold` tasks have all failed|
|UNABLE_TO_CONNECT_TO_STREAM|UNHEALTHY_SUPERVISOR|The supervisor is encountering connectivity issues with Kafka and has not successfully connected in the past|
|LOST_CONTACT_WITH_STREAM|UNHEALTHY_SUPERVISOR|The supervisor is encountering connectivity issues with Kafka but has successfully connected in the past|
|PENDING (first iteration only)|PENDING|The supervisor has been initialized and hasn't started connecting to the stream|
|CONNECTING_TO_STREAM (first iteration only)|RUNNING|The supervisor is trying to connect to the stream and update partition data|
|DISCOVERING_INITIAL_TASKS (first iteration only)|RUNNING|The supervisor is discovering already-running tasks|
|CREATING_TASKS (first iteration only)|RUNNING|The supervisor is creating tasks and discovering state|
|RUNNING|RUNNING|The supervisor has started tasks and is waiting for taskDuration to elapse|
|SUSPENDED|SUSPENDED|The supervisor has been suspended|
|STOPPING|STOPPING|The supervisor is stopping|

On each iteration of the supervisor's run loop, the supervisor completes the following tasks in sequence:
  1) Fetch the list of partitions from Kafka and determine the starting offset for each partition (either based on the
  last processed offset if continuing, or starting from the beginning or ending of the stream if this is a new topic).
  2) Discover any running indexing tasks that are writing to the supervisor's datasource and adopt them if they match
  the supervisor's configuration, else signal them to stop.
  3) Send a status request to each supervised task to update our view of the state of the tasks under our supervision.
  4) Handle tasks that have exceeded `taskDuration` and should transition from the reading to publishing state.
  5) Handle tasks that have finished publishing and signal redundant replica tasks to stop.
  6) Handle tasks that have failed and clean up the supervisor's internal state.
  7) Compare the list of healthy tasks to the requested `taskCount` and `replicas` configurations and create additional tasks if required.

The `detailedState` field will show additional values (those marked with "first iteration only") the first time the
supervisor executes this run loop after startup or after resuming from a suspension. This is intended to surface
initialization-type issues, where the supervisor is unable to reach a stable state (perhaps because it can't connect to
Kafka, it can't read from the Kafka topic, or it can't communicate with existing tasks). Once the supervisor is stable -
that is, once it has completed a full execution without encountering any issues - `detailedState` will show a `RUNNING`
state until it is stopped, suspended, or hits a failure threshold and transitions to an unhealthy state.

### Getting Supervisor Ingestion Stats Report

`GET /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/stats` returns a snapshot of the current ingestion row counters for each task being managed by the supervisor, along with moving averages for the row counters.

See [Task Reports: Row Stats](../../ingestion/tasks.md#row-stats) for more information.

### Supervisor Health Check

`GET /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/health` returns `200 OK` if the supervisor is healthy and
`503 Service Unavailable` if it is unhealthy. Healthiness is determined by the supervisor's `state` (as returned by the
`/status` endpoint) and the `druid.supervisor.*` Overlord configuration thresholds.

### Updating Existing Supervisors

`POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor` can be used to update existing supervisor spec.
Calling this endpoint when there is already an existing supervisor for the same dataSource will cause:

- The running supervisor to signal its managed tasks to stop reading and begin publishing.
- The running supervisor to exit.
- A new supervisor to be created using the configuration provided in the request body. This supervisor will retain the
existing publishing tasks and will create new tasks starting at the offsets the publishing tasks ended on.

Seamless schema migrations can thus be achieved by simply submitting the new schema using this endpoint.

### Suspending and Resuming Supervisors

You can suspend and resume a supervisor using `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/suspend` and `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/resume`, respectively.

Note that the supervisor itself will still be operating and emitting logs and metrics,
it will just ensure that no indexing tasks are running until the supervisor is resumed.

### Resetting Supervisors

The `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/reset` operation clears stored 
offsets, causing the supervisor to start reading offsets from either the earliest or latest 
offsets in Kafka (depending on the value of `useEarliestOffset`). After clearing stored 
offsets, the supervisor kills and recreates any active tasks, so that tasks begin reading 
from valid offsets. 

Use care when using this operation! Resetting the supervisor may cause Kafka messages 
to be skipped or read twice, resulting in missing or duplicate data. 

The reason for using this operation is to recover from a state in which the supervisor 
ceases operating due to missing offsets. The indexing service keeps track of the latest 
persisted Kafka offsets in order to provide exactly-once ingestion guarantees across 
tasks. Subsequent tasks must start reading from where the previous task completed in 
order for the generated segments to be accepted. If the messages at the expected 
starting offsets are no longer available in Kafka (typically because the message retention 
period has elapsed or the topic was removed and re-created) the supervisor will refuse 
to start and in flight tasks will fail. This operation enables you to recover from this condition. 

Note that the supervisor must be running for this endpoint to be available.

### Terminating Supervisors

The `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/terminate` operation terminates a supervisor and causes all 
associated indexing tasks managed by this supervisor to immediately stop and begin
publishing their segments. This supervisor will still exist in the metadata store and it's history may be retrieved
with the supervisor history API, but will not be listed in the 'get supervisors' API response nor can it's configuration
or status report be retrieved. The only way this supervisor can start again is by submitting a functioning supervisor
spec to the create API.

### Capacity Planning

Kafka indexing tasks run on MiddleManagers and are thus limited by the resources available in the MiddleManager
cluster. In particular, you should make sure that you have sufficient worker capacity (configured using the
`druid.worker.capacity` property) to handle the configuration in the supervisor spec. Note that worker capacity is
shared across all types of indexing tasks, so you should plan your worker capacity to handle your total indexing load
(e.g. batch processing, realtime tasks, merging tasks, etc.). If your workers run out of capacity, Kafka indexing tasks
will queue and wait for the next available worker. This may cause queries to return partial results but will not result
in data loss (assuming the tasks run before Kafka purges those offsets).

A running task will normally be in one of two states: *reading* or *publishing*. A task will remain in reading state for
`taskDuration`, at which point it will transition to publishing state. A task will remain in publishing state for as long
as it takes to generate segments, push segments to deep storage, and have them be loaded and served by a Historical process
(or until `completionTimeout` elapses).

The number of reading tasks is controlled by `replicas` and `taskCount`. In general, there will be `replicas * taskCount`
reading tasks, the exception being if taskCount > {numKafkaPartitions} in which case {numKafkaPartitions} tasks will
be used instead. When `taskDuration` elapses, these tasks will transition to publishing state and `replicas * taskCount`
new reading tasks will be created. Therefore to allow for reading tasks and publishing tasks to run concurrently, there
should be a minimum capacity of:

```
workerCapacity = 2 * replicas * taskCount
```

This value is for the ideal situation in which there is at most one set of tasks publishing while another set is reading.
In some circumstances, it is possible to have multiple sets of tasks publishing simultaneously. This would happen if the
time-to-publish (generate segment, push to deep storage, loaded on Historical) > `taskDuration`. This is a valid
scenario (correctness-wise) but requires additional worker capacity to support. In general, it is a good idea to have
`taskDuration` be large enough that the previous set of tasks finishes publishing before the current set begins.

### Supervisor Persistence

When a supervisor spec is submitted via the `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor` endpoint, it is persisted in the
configured metadata database. There can only be a single supervisor per dataSource, and submitting a second spec for
the same dataSource will overwrite the previous one.

When an Overlord gains leadership, either by being started or as a result of another Overlord failing, it will spawn
a supervisor for each supervisor spec in the metadata database. The supervisor will then discover running Kafka indexing
tasks and will attempt to adopt them if they are compatible with the supervisor's configuration. If they are not
compatible because they have a different ingestion spec or partition allocation, the tasks will be killed and the
supervisor will create a new set of tasks. In this way, the supervisors are persistent across Overlord restarts and
fail-overs.

A supervisor is stopped via the `POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor/<supervisorId>/terminate` endpoint. This places a
tombstone marker in the database (to prevent the supervisor from being reloaded on a restart) and then gracefully
shuts down the currently running supervisor. When a supervisor is shut down in this way, it will instruct its
managed tasks to stop reading and begin publishing their segments immediately. The call to the shutdown endpoint will
return after all tasks have been signaled to stop but before the tasks finish publishing their segments.

### Schema/Configuration Changes

Schema and configuration changes are handled by submitting the new supervisor spec via the same
`POST /druid/indexer/v1/supervisor` endpoint used to initially create the supervisor. The Overlord will initiate a
graceful shutdown of the existing supervisor which will cause the tasks being managed by that supervisor to stop reading
and begin publishing their segments. A new supervisor will then be started which will create a new set of tasks that
will start reading from the offsets where the previous now-publishing tasks left off, but using the updated schema.
In this way, configuration changes can be applied without requiring any pause in ingestion.

### Deployment Notes

#### On the Subject of Segments

Each Kafka Indexing Task puts events consumed from Kafka partitions assigned to it in a single segment for each segment
granular interval until maxRowsPerSegment, maxTotalRows or intermediateHandoffPeriod limit is reached, at this point a new partition
for this segment granularity is created for further events. Kafka Indexing Task also does incremental hand-offs which
means that all the segments created by a task will not be held up till the task duration is over. As soon as maxRowsPerSegment,
maxTotalRows or intermediateHandoffPeriod limit is hit, all the segments held by the task at that point in time will be handed-off
and new set of segments will be created for further events. This means that the task can run for longer durations of time
without accumulating old segments locally on Middle Manager processes and it is encouraged to do so.

Kafka Indexing Service may still produce some small segments. Lets say the task duration is 4 hours, segment granularity
is set to an HOUR and Supervisor was started at 9:10 then after 4 hours at 13:10, new set of tasks will be started and
events for the interval 13:00 - 14:00 may be split across previous and new set of tasks. If you see it becoming a problem then
one can schedule re-indexing tasks be run to merge segments together into new segments of an ideal size (in the range of ~500-700 MB per segment).
Details on how to optimize the segment size can be found on [Segment size optimization](../../operations/segment-optimization.md).
There is also ongoing work to support automatic segment compaction of sharded segments as well as compaction not requiring
Hadoop (see [here](https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/5102)).
