diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaApplicationLongMessage.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaApplicationLongMessage.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0af0a4b091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaApplicationLongMessage.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package com.baeldung.spring.kafka;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.kafka.annotation.KafkaListener;
+import org.springframework.kafka.core.KafkaTemplate;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class KafkaApplicationLongMessage {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        ConfigurableApplicationContext context = SpringApplication.run(KafkaApplicationLongMessage.class, args);
+
+        LongMessageProducer producer = context.getBean(LongMessageProducer.class);
+
+        String fileData = readLongMessage();
+        producer.sendMessage(fileData);
+
+        //Deliberate delay to let listener consume produced message before main thread stops
+        Thread.sleep(5000);
+        context.close();
+    }
+
+    private static String readLongMessage() throws IOException {
+        String data = "";
+
+        //update complete location of large message here
+        data = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("RandomTextFile.txt")));
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public LongMessageProducer longMessageProducer() {
+        return new LongMessageProducer();
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public LongMessageListener longMessageListener() {
+        return new LongMessageListener();
+    }
+
+    public static class LongMessageProducer {
+
+        @Autowired
+        private KafkaTemplate<String, String> kafkaTemplate;
+
+        @Value(value = "${long.message.topic.name}")
+        private String topicName;
+
+        public void sendMessage(String message) {
+            kafkaTemplate.send(topicName, message);
+            System.out.println("Long message Sent");
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public static class LongMessageListener {
+
+        @KafkaListener(topics = "${long.message.topic.name}", groupId = "longMessage", containerFactory = "longMessageKafkaListenerContainerFactory")
+        public void listenGroupLongMessage(String message) {
+            System.out.println("Received Message in group 'longMessage'");
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaConsumerConfig.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaConsumerConfig.java
index abaa431eec..9495fcf508 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaConsumerConfig.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaConsumerConfig.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ public class KafkaConsumerConfig {
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, groupId);
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.MAX_PARTITION_FETCH_BYTES_CONFIG, "20971520");
+        props.put(ConsumerConfig.FETCH_MAX_BYTES_CONFIG, "20971520");
         return new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory<>(props);
     }
 
@@ -56,6 +58,11 @@ public class KafkaConsumerConfig {
         return kafkaListenerContainerFactory("partitions");
     }
 
+    @Bean
+    public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> longMessageKafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
+        return kafkaListenerContainerFactory("longMessage");
+    }
+
     @Bean
     public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> filterKafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
         ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> factory = kafkaListenerContainerFactory("filter");
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaProducerConfig.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaProducerConfig.java
index 0223bab0fe..9dff81a09d 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaProducerConfig.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaProducerConfig.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ public class KafkaProducerConfig {
         configProps.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, bootstrapAddress);
         configProps.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringSerializer.class);
         configProps.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringSerializer.class);
+        configProps.put(ProducerConfig.MAX_REQUEST_SIZE_CONFIG, "20971520");
+
         return new DefaultKafkaProducerFactory<>(configProps);
     }
 
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaTopicConfig.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaTopicConfig.java
index 00e4147cd0..8a006a72bc 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaTopicConfig.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/kafka/KafkaTopicConfig.java
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ public class KafkaTopicConfig {
     @Value(value = "${message.topic.name}")
     private String topicName;
 
+    @Value(value = "${long.message.topic.name}")
+    private String longMsgTopicName;
+
     @Value(value = "${partitioned.topic.name}")
     private String partitionedTopicName;
 
@@ -54,4 +57,13 @@ public class KafkaTopicConfig {
     public NewTopic topic4() {
         return new NewTopic(greetingTopicName, 1, (short) 1);
     }
+
+    @Bean
+    public NewTopic topic5() {
+        NewTopic newTopic = new NewTopic(longMsgTopicName, 1, (short) 1);
+        Map<String, String> configs = new HashMap<>();
+        configs.put("max.message.bytes", "20971520");
+        newTopic.configs(configs);
+        return newTopic;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/resources/application.properties b/spring-kafka/src/main/resources/application.properties
index e6a4668da3..e1a983339b 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 kafka.bootstrapAddress=localhost:9092
 message.topic.name=baeldung
+long.message.topic.name=longMessage
 greeting.topic.name=greeting
 filtered.topic.name=filtered
 partitioned.topic.name=partitioned