KIP-1191 — Dead-letter queues for share groups
Accepted Consumer
Adds dead-letter queue (DLQ) support for share groups, automatically routing records that exceed their max delivery count or are explicitly rejected (ARCHIVED acknowledgment type) to a configurable dead-letter topic. KIP-932's share groups track delivery counts and enforce limits, but provided no automated mechanism to handle poison messages—they simply accumulated redeliveries until manually addressed.
Protocol Impact
Details
| Author | Andrew Schofield |
| Status | Accepted |
| JIRA | KAFKA-19469 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2025-07-04 |
| Last Modified | 2026-03-05 |
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